Queerness in nineteenth-century transatlantic spiritualism

十九世纪跨大西洋唯灵论中的酷儿

• 批准号: 2708224
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2708224
• 关键词: Queerness; nineteenth; century; transatlantic; spiritualism

This study will examine how Victorian spiritualists in Britain and the United States developed a distinctive culture that expands and complicates existing accounts of nineteenth-century queer history. Chapter 1 considers how the priorities of spiritualist theology and its relationship to technology drove new ways of thinking about gender that both resembled and differed from sexology. Chapter 2 focuses on how spiritualist spaces like the séance allowed for expression of unusual desires and same-sex eroticism. Chapter 3 assesses how the return of the dead destabilised the hegemony of ordinary marriage. Chapter4 will discuss how queer relationships flourished amongst spiritualist communities. It will examine how the theological implications and practical realities of spiritualism fostered a queer world and worldview using a range of sources such as autobiographies, periodicals, art and correspondence. This study's definition of queerness incorporates acts, identity and social position.

这项研究将研究英国和美国的维多利亚时代的属灵主义者如何发展一种独特的文化，从而扩大并使19世纪酷儿历史的现有叙述变得复杂。第1章考虑了精神主义神学的优先事项及其与技术的关系如何推动与性别相似和与性别学不同的性别思考的新思维方式。第2章侧重于诸如Séance之类的精神主义空间如何允许表达异常欲望和同性色情。第3章评估死者的归来如何破坏普通婚姻的霸权。第4章将讨论酷儿关系如何在精神主义社区中流传。它将研究属灵主义的神学含义和实践现实如何使用自传，期刊，艺术和信件等一系列来源来促进一个奇怪的世界和世界观。这项研究对酷儿的定义结合了行为，身份和社会地位。