LEADER 03985nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910811753903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 $a20060630d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aVictorian literary mesmerism /$fedited by Martin Willis and Catherine Wynne 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam $cRodopi$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 1 $aCosterus,$x0165-9618 ;$vnew ser., v.160 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2008-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-265) 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 ;$vnew ser., v.160. 606 $aMesmerism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMesmerism in literature 615 0$aMesmerism$xHistory 615 0$aMesmerism in literature. 676 $a154.7094109034 701 $aWillis$b Martin$01163524 701 $aWynne$b Catherine$f1971-$01763212 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811753903321 996 $aVictorian literary mesmerism$94203528 997 $aUNINA