Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920

First published:
21st century
Language: English
Content type: Fiction

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Description

This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1920s.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, Occultism and esotericism, Parapsychology and psychical research, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

Occultism and esotericism
Retained metadata contains “occult” in the title, “occult” in the subject metadata, “supernatural” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).
- “occult”· in title
- “occult”· in subject
- “supernatural”· in subject
- “occult”· in edition title
Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling
Controlled discovery queries from crossref, libris, openalex, and wellcome matched “spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the title, “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata, and “Spiritualism” in the edition title.
- “spiritualism”· via Crossref
- “spiritualism”· via Libris, National Library of Sweden
- “spiritualism”· via OpenAlex
- “spiritualism”· via Wellcome Collection
- “Spiritualism”· in title
- “Spiritualism”· in subject
Parapsychology and psychical research
Retained metadata contains “Psychical research” in the description, “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata, and “Psychical research” in the subject metadata.
- “Psychical research”· in description
- “Parapsychology”· in subject
- “Psychical research”· in subject
Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis
Controlled discovery queries from crossref and openalex matched “mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the title, “mesmeric” in the description, “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).
- “mesmerism”· via Crossref
- “mesmerism”· via OpenAlex
- “Mesmerism”· in title
- “mesmeric”· in description
- “Mesmerism”· in subject
- “Mesmerism”· in edition title

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Crossref publisher-supplied book record	2021-12-01	Routledge	English	9781003112822	Unknown	Crossref (opens in a new tab) OpenAlex (opens in a new tab)
Wellcome Collection bibliographic record 5 volumes ; 24 cm	2012	Pickering & Chatto	English	9781848932005 1848932006	Catalog record	Wellcome Collection (opens in a new tab) Libris, National Library of Sweden (opens in a new tab) Libris, National Library of Sweden (opens in a new tab)