Altered states : sex, nation, drugs, and self-transformation in Victorian spiritualism / Marlene Tromp.

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006], ©2006.

xii, 233 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Spirited sexuality : sex, marriage, and Victorian spiritualism -- Wedding stories/ghost stories -- Ghostly erotics and the imperialism in the Victorian drawing room -- Economics, race, and the specter of class -- Drunk with power : stories of ghostly others -- Under the influence : the fox sisters and pernicious spirits -- Haunted : Elizabeth d'Espérance, social justice, and the evolution of mediumship.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index.