Poe, Fuller, and the mesmeric arts [electronic resource] : transition states in the American Renaissance / Bruce Mills.
By: Mills, Bruce.
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005Description: 202 p.Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge -- Psychology | Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Knowledge -- Psychology | Mesmer, Franz Anton, 1734-1815 -- Influence | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
| Mesmerism in literature | Mesmerism -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Altered states of consciousness in literature | Animal magnetism in literature | Sleepwalking in literature | Hypnotism in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/353 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Summary: "Examines how the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Margaret Fuller draw from representations of and theories concerning animal magnetism, somnambulism, or hypnosis rendered in newspapers, literary and medical journals, pamphlets, and books, and also includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Maria Child, and Walt Whitman"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Examines how the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Margaret Fuller draw from representations of and theories concerning animal magnetism, somnambulism, or hypnosis rendered in newspapers, literary and medical journals, pamphlets, and books, and also includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Maria Child, and Walt Whitman"--Provided by publisher.
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