Mesmerism and Its Opponents
Author: George Sandby
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 402
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Author: George Sandby
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 402
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Sandby (M.A., Vicar of Flixton, Suffolk.)
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Neilson (mesmerist.)
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emily Ogden
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-03-30
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 022653247X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America.
Author: Library company of Philadelphia
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 1150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Radclyffe Hall
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: L. Garrison
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-11-30
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0230297587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired.
Author: James Braid
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1304205150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first complete edition of the writings of James Braid, the man who coined the term "hypnotism" and founded hypnotherapy. Also includes Braid's "lost manuscript," written just before his death, in which he reviews his life's work for the French Academy of Sciences. Excerpts from the writings of his most devoted follower, Dr. John Milne Bramwell, are also included, which describe Braid's life and work. The current editor provides detailed prefatory essays and commentary for the modern reader.
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 762
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 622
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