Victorian Literary Mesmerism examines the engagement among literature and mesmerism in Victorian writing. Drawing on fresh traits in interdisciplinary literary scholarship the essays amassed right here examine the complicated connections among medical mesmerism, its manifestations within the Victorian social and cultural international, and the literary mind's eye. the following, for the 1st time, the numerous topics and contexts formed by means of mesmeric practices are introduced jointly in a single quantity. Mesmerism's impact on phrenology, drugs and psychological future health; its interplay with the occult and with conversation applied sciences; the consequences of mesmeric ideas on gender and sexuality, in addition to on felony behaviour, are prepared in the context of literary texts that interrogate and critique mesmerism's impact at the Victorians. This quantity can be of curiosity, for this reason, to students of Victorian literature and the historical past of technology, in addition to to these attracted to cultural heritage with a spotlight on gender, sexuality, and sciences of the brain.
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