Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin de si cle. She argues that as new technologies, such as the telegraph and the telephone, began suffusing the public imagination from the mid nineteenth century on, they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Making unexpected connections between, for instance, speaking on the telephone and speaking to the dead, she examines how psychical