Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76798-9 — Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920 Shane McCorristine Index More Information Index Abraham, Nicolas 159, 161 Brown, Annie 201 American Psychical Institute and Brown, J.H. 47–8 Laboratory 227 Brown, Samuel 195 American Society for Psychical Research Browning, Robert 15, 108 112, 167, 170, 196 Buchanan, Robert 48 Andrews, Malcolm 135 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 14 angels 39, 67, 68 Burton, Richard Francis 104 animal magnetism 9, 66, 71 Buss, Robert W. 63 animism 20, 82 Butler, Samuel 140 anthropology 20, 82, 128, 135 Arie`s, Philippe 155 Carlyle, Thomas 92 Aristotle 6 Carpenter, William B. 78, 205, 207 Assier, Adolphe d’ 95 Carrington, Hereward 223, 227 atheism 43, 51, 220 Castle, Terry 33, 35 Cerullo, John 213 Baillarger, Jules 55, 194 Chapman, William 47 Balcon, Michael 188 Charcot, Jean-Martin 196 Balfour, Arthur 104, 111, 175 Cixous, He´le`ne 3 Ballou, Adin 109 clairvoyance 71, 74, 99, 177, 183 Barrett, William Fletcher 109, 110, 112, Clark, Stuart 31 114, 115, 139, 151, 152 Clerke, Kate M. 178–9 Barthes, Roland 158 Cock Lane ghost 8 Bath, Jo 29 Coffin, Walter H. 114 Baudelaire, Charles 219 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 17, 37, 56, 79 Beard, George M. 221 communication networks 3, 11, 105, behaviourism 211, 212, 216 115, 148–9 Bekker, Balthasar 29 communion of saints 157 Bergson, Henri 104, 160, 190 community of sensation 22, 69, 135–8, Bierce, Ambrose 91 145, 147, 150, 160–2, 167, 176, Binet, Alfred 194 178, 190, 212 Blackburn, Douglas 116, 169, 189 Comte, Auguste 113 Blake, William 88 Cook, Florence 15, 76, 108, 109 Blavatsky, Helena 164, 165–6 Cottingley fairies 224 Bo¨hme, Gernot 36 Cottom, Daniel 4, 13 Bo¨hme, Hartmut 36 Cox, Edward William ‘Serjeant’ 103 Bowyer, Richard A. 27 Cox, Michael 17 Breton, Andre´ 219 Crawley, A.E. 84 Brewster, David 33, 49 Creery Sisters 116, 169, 171–2, 189 Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre 55–7, 60, 89 Crookes, William 15, 76, 104, 108, 109 Briggs, Julia 65 Crosland, Newton 95 British College of Psychic Science 227 Crowe, Catherine 10–11, 12, 13, 15 Bronte¨, Charlotte 11 Cruikshank, George 90 271 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76798-9 — Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920 Shane McCorristine Index More Information 272 Index Darwin, Frank 105 Ghost Club 103 Darwinism 22, 128 Ghost Society 103 Davies, Owen 4, 8 ghost stories (fiction) 13, 14, 16–19, 20, death 3–4, 39, 115, 138, 153–6, 159, 160, 35–6, 60, 61–5, 123, 136–7, 223 161, 177, 179, 195, 223–4 ghosts bereavement 49, 93, 148, 149, 155, 224 in the bedroom 63, 144, 158, 174, compacts 148, 150 178–9, 205 of the other 3, 147, 148, 151, 155, 168 and Catholicism 30, 57 of the self 160 of a child 125 Defoe, Daniel 8, 17, 31 and clothes 21, 45, 69, 73, 90–100 de la Mare, Walter 222 crisis-apparition 1, 2, 74, 137–8, 140, Denton, William 96–7 143, 145–9, 149–51, 153–6, 162, Derrida, Jacques 5, 19 167, 169, 195, 199, 200, 208, 227 Dickens, Charles 6, 13–14, 17, 19, 35, as a double 81 88, 135 as dreams 3, 19, 23, 40, 45, 65, 69, A Christmas Carol 61–3, 65 75, 208–9 Dickinson, Emily 133, 134 as entertainment 47 Dilthey, Wilhelm 8 forebodings of 158–9 Dodge, Raymond 211–12 medieval 27 Dolby, R.G.A. 190 phantasms of the dead 22, 99, 130, 134, Doyle, Arthur Conan 104, 187, 223, 224 138, 172, 181, 183, 187, 199 dreams 160, 192 and Protestantism 17, 28, 156, 157–8 of the dead 73, 150, 160–1, 161–2, 179 purposeless 3, 126, 173, 180 and hallucinations 63, 72–3, 161 of the self 143–5, 150, 222 theories of 3, 37–40, 50, 57 testimony of 44, 117–18, 119–24, 130, Drelincourt, Charles 18 163, 165, 174 traditional 1, 2, 4, 45, 91, 121, 122, 123, Eglinton, William 115 154, 159, 173, 175, 179, 199, 227 Eliot, George 60, 140 and vision 6–8, 32, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, Ellenberger, Henri 10 49, 52, 76, 88, 90 Ellis, Havelock 204 Gilbert, R.A. 17 Engels, Friedrich 218 Gladstone, William E. 104, 105 Enlightenment, the 11, 19, 31–3, 43, Glanvill, Joseph 30, 220 46, 48, 59, 68, 77, 91, 119, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 81 130, 216, 218 Goya, Francisco de 37, 64 Esquirol, J.E.D. 20, 53–5, 62, 193 Grose, Francis 45 evangelicalism 79 Gurney, Edmund 98, 99, 111, 114, 115, Ey, Henri 55 116, 119, 123, 127, 128, 131, 133, 135, 139, 140–1, 146, 152, 153–4, factionality 10, 14, 16–18, 19, 106, 158, 161–2, 163, 164, 165, 166–7, 223, 227 169–70, 171, 172, 174, 175, 176–7, Faraday, Michael 13 178–9, 181, 185, 186, 187, 188, Fata Morgana 52 189, 193, 194, 195, 198, 199, Ferriar, John 39, 44, 45, 51, 52, 56 202, 203 Flournoy, The´odore 187, 213 Ford, Jennifer 37 Hall, G. Stanley 112, 168–70 Foucault, Michel 11 hallucination 2, 3, 20, 21, 32, 33, 39, 42, Fournier d’Albe, E.E. 151, 223 45, 52–7, 61–5, 68, 69, 74, 75, 76, Fox sisters 12, 66 80–2, 84, 87, 88–9, 90, 91, 97–8, Freud, Sigmund 39, 57, 104, 100, 117, 119, 124, 190, 215–17 213–14, 223 of an artist 118–19 definition of 32, 52, 79–80, 88 Galton, Francis 20, 84–7, 88, 198 as dream 40, 50, 53, 54–5, 59, 63, Gaskell, Elizabeth 14 69–70, 82, 83, 91, 92, 98, 202–9, Gauld, Alan 104, 189 210, 216–17 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76798-9 — Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920 Shane McCorristine Index More Information Index 273 of memory 167, 168 Kollar, Rene 157 moral cause of 56 Kuhn, Thomas 170 origin of 46, 53, 55, 193–4, 199 theory of 46, 117 Lamont, Peter 16 French 53–60, 81 Lang, Andrew 98, 106, 206, 208–9 Hauffe, Friederike 10, 71 Latour, Bruno 211 haunted house 114, 117, 118, 123, 172–4, Lautre´amont, Comte de 219 175, 176, 222 Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan 18, 35 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 35, 65, 149 Le´lut, L.F. 89 ‘The Haunted Mind’ 63–5 Leonardo da Vinci 219 Haynes, Rene´e 186 Leopardi, Giacomo 219 Hearnshaw, L.S. 185 Lewes, George Henry 76–7, 88 Hervey de Saint-Denys, Marie-Jean-Le´on Lewis, Angelo (‘Professor Hoffmann’) 77 57, 58–9, 216 Llina´s, R.R. 216 Hibbert, Samuel 44–5, 56, 86 Locke, John 6 Hodgson, Richard 115, 166, 187, 188, 191 Lodge, Oliver 133, 164, 186, 187, 223 Hoffmann, E.T.A. 10, 37 London Dialectical Society 14, 208 Holland, Henry 50 London Society for the Prevention of Home, Daniel Dunglas 15, 76, 108, Premature Burial 154 109, 207 Luckhurst, Roger 105, 120, 121, 142, 189 Homer 1 Luther, Martin 28, 39, 56, 89 Honywood, Mrs 208 Hopkins, R. Thurston 223 MacAlpine, William 137 Howitt, William 219 Machen, Arthur 223 Hume, David 69, 129 Macnish, Robert 49 hypnotism 79, 98, 115, 135, 141, 170, 179, magic 12 182, 183, 194, 196, 207 Martin, Lillien J. 87–8 Marx, Karl 218 Ibsen, Henrik 220 Maudsley, Henry 79–81, 89 Innes, A. Taylor 163–4, 165, 167, 170 Maury, Alfred 57–8, 59–60, 60, Institut me´tapsychique international 227 203, 216 International Congress of Experimental McDougall, William 104 Psychology 196–7, 210 Mesmer, Anton 122 Ireland, William W. 89–90 mesmerism 9, 13, 22, 71, 78, 80, 110, 114, 115, 122, 135, 136, 144, 182 James VI and I 29 Mill, John Stuart 132–3 James, Henry 1, 2, 3, 9, 124, 137, 227 Moses, William Stainton 104, 143–4, 145 ‘The Friends of the Friends’ 1–2 Most Haunted 1 James, William 9, 14, 104, 112, 116, 131, Muhammad 89 137, 141, 182–3, 187, 190, 196, Mu¨ller, Johannes 50 197, 211, 213–14, 227 Myers, A.T. 196 Janet, Pierre 59, 196, 213 Myers, Frederic W.H. 21, 22, 98–9, 104, Joan of Arc 89 105, 106, 107–8, 110, 111, 114, Johnson, Samuel 31 115, 116, 119, 128, 134, 137, 139, Joyce, James 6, 220 140, 141, 145, 146, 172, 174, 176, Jung, Carl Gustav 15, 104, 156, 214–15 177–8, 179–80, 181–8, 190, 196, Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich 7, 10 210, 213 Human Personality and Its Survival of Kant, Immanuel 20, 36, 66–70, 71, 74, 75, Bodily Death 22, 114, 182, 187, 190 124, 164, 192, 216, 218, 221 Kardec, Allan 11, 93 Nancy, Jean-Luc 151 Keats, John 35 National Laboratory of Psychical Kerner, Justinus 10 Research 227 Keulemans, J.G. 125 Newton, Isaac 186 Kirkland, Winifred 223 Newton, John 29 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76798-9 — Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920 Shane McCorristine Index More Information 274 Index Nicol, Fraser 141 Rhine, J.B. 227 Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich 40–3, 50, 60, Ribot, Germain Theodore 196 63, 69, 78, 88, 97, 193 Richet, Charles 104, 132, 196 Nietzsche, Friedrich 137 Rimbaud, Arthur 219 Robertson, C.