LEADER 03930nam 22006132 450 001 9910451813303321 005 20210531145055.0 010 $a94-012-0301-6 010 $a1-4294-6807-6 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401203012 035 $a(CKB)1000000000464442 035 $a(EBL)556641 035 $a(OCoLC)714567342 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267323 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12086034 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267323 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10334346 035 $a(PQKB)11500623 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556641 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556641 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380640 035 $a(OCoLC)133466213 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401203012 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000464442 100 $a20200716d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aVictorian Literary Mesmerism /$fedited by Martin Willis, Catherine Wynne 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 1 $aCosterus New Series ;$v160 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2008-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMartin WILLIS and Catherine WYNNE: Introduction -- Ilana KURSHAN: Mind Reading: Literature in the Discourse of Early Victorian Phrenology and Mesmerism -- Gavin BUDGE: Mesmerism and Medicine in Bulwer-Lytton's Novels of the Occult -- Anthony ENNS: Mesmerism and the Electric Age: From Poe to Edison -- Louise HENSON: Mesmeric Delusions: Mind and Mental Training in Elizabeth Gaskell's Writings -- Tiffany DONNELLY: Mesmerism, Clairvoyance and Literary Culture in Mid-Century Australia -- Angelic RODGERS: Jim Crows, Veiled Ladies and True Womanhood: Mesmerism in The House of the Seven Gables -- Martin WILLIS: George Eliot's The Lifted Vei l and the Cultural Politics of Clairvoyance -- Sharrona PEARL: Dazed and Abused: Gender and Mesmerism in Wilkie Collins -- Alisha SIEBERS: Marie Corelli's Magnetic Revitalizing Power -- Mary Elizabeth LEIGHTON: Under the Influence: Crime and Hypnotic Fictions of the Fin de Siècle -- Catherine WYNNE: Arthur Conan Doyle's Domestic Desires: Mesmerism, Mediumship and Femmes Fatales -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aVictorian Literary Mesmerism examines the engagement between literature and mesmerism in Victorian writing. Drawing on recent trends in interdisciplinary literary scholarship the essays collected here investigate the complex connections between scientific mesmerism, its manifestations in the Victorian social and cultural world, and the literary imagination. Here, for the first time, the varied themes and contexts shaped by mesmeric practices are brought together in one volume. Mesmerism's influence on phrenology, medicine and mental health; its interaction with the occult and with communication technologies; the effects of mesmeric principles on gender and sexuality, as well as on criminal behaviour, are all set within the context of literary texts that interrogate and critique mesmerism's influence on the Victorians. This volume will be of interest, therefore, to scholars of Victorian literature and the history of science, as well as to those interested in cultural history with a focus on gender, sexuality, and sciences of the mind. 410 0$aCosterus New Series ;$v160. 606 $aMesmerism in literature 606 $aMesmerism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMesmerism in literature. 615 0$aMesmerism$xHistory 676 $a154.7094109034 702 $aWillis$b Martin 702 $aWynne$b Catherine 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451813303321 996 $aVictorian Literary Mesmerism$91889784 997 $aUNINA