Victorian literary mesmerism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Series: | Costerus,
new ser., v. 160 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=163992 |
Table of Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction; 1. Mind Reading: Literature in the Discourse of Early Victorian Phrenology and Mesmerism; 2. Mesmerism and Medicine in Bulwer-Lytton's Novels of the Occult; 3. Mesmerism and the Electric Age: From Poe to Edison; 4. Mesmeric Delusions: Mind and Mental Training in Elizabeth Gaskell's Writings; 5. Mesmerism, Clairvoyance and Literary Culture in Mid-Century Australia; 6. Jim Crows, Veiled Ladies and True Womanhood: Mesmerism in The House of the Seven Gables; 7. George Eliot's The Lifted Veil and the Cultural Politics of Clairvoyance.
- 8. Dazed and Abused: Gender and Mesmerism in Wilkie Collins9. Marie Corelli's Magnetic Revitalizing Power; 10. Under the Influence: Crime and Hypnotic Fictions of the Fin de Siècle; 11. Arthur Conan Doyle's Domestic Desires: Mesmerism, Mediumship and Femmes Fatales; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index.