Mesmerized : powers of mind in Victorian Britain / Alison Winter.
Mesmerized : powers of mind in Victorian Britain / Alison Winter.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1998.
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N154.70941/1
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English
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xiv, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: An Invitation to the Seance -- 1. Discovery of the Island of Mesmeria -- 2. Animal Magnetism Comes to London -- 3. Experimental Subjects as Scientific Instruments -- 4. Carnival, Chapel, and Pantomime -- 5. The Peripatetic Power of the "New Science" -- 6. Consultations, Conversaziones,...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1998.
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Illinois
Date Published
c1998.
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Alison Winter's cultural history considers this pervasive pursuit as a central aspect of Victorian culture. Winter describes who was entranced, who did the entrancing, why mesmerism was such a compelling experience to so many, and how to others it became powerful evidence of fraud and "unscientific" behavior. Her account traces the history of mesme...
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Mesmerized : powers of mind in Victorian Britain / Alison Winter.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-451) and index.
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c1998.
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N154.70941/1
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74Vvd7J34elg
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0226902196 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780226902197 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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154.7094109034
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991005865919702626
