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Victorian Literary Mesmerism

by Catherine Wynne & Martin Willis

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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Victorian Literary Mesmerism examines the engagement between literature and mesmerism in Victorian writing. Drawing on recent trends in interdisciplinary literary scholarship the essays collected here investigate the complex connections between scientific mesmerism, its manifestations in the Victorian social and cultural world, and the literary imagination. Here, for the first time, the varied themes and contexts shaped by mesmeric practices are brought together in one volume. Mesmerism’s influence on phrenology, medicine and mental health; its interaction with the occult and with communication technologies; the effects of mesmeric principles on gender and sexuality, as well as on criminal behaviour, are all set within the context of literary texts that interrogate and critique mesmerism’s influence on the Victorians. This volume will be of interest, therefore, to scholars of Victorian literature and the history of science, as well as to those interested in cultural history with a focus on gender, sexuality, and sciences of the mind.

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, and Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “occult” in the description.

    • “occult”· in description
  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, openaire, and openalex matched “mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the title, “mesmeric” in the description, “Mesmerism” in the description, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “mesmerism”· via Crossref
    • “mesmerism”· via OpenAIRE Graph
    • “mesmerism”· via OpenAlex
    • “Mesmerism”· in title
    • “mesmeric”· in description
    • “Mesmerism”· in description

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2006-01-01BRILL; BrillEnglish
  • 9789042020085
  • 9789401203012
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crossref:10.1163/9789401203012
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