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Victorian literary mesmerism /
Victorian Literary Mesmerism examines the engagement between literatureand mesmerism in Victorian writing. Drawing on recent trends ininterdisciplinary literary scholarship the essays collected here investigatethe complex connections between scientific mesmerism, its manifestationsin the Victorian s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Colección: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 160. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.