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Author Mills, Bruce, 1958-

Title Poe, Fuller, and the mesmeric arts : transition states in the American Renaissance / Bruce Mills
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 202 pages) : illustrations
Contents Charting the mesmeric turn: sympathy, animal magnetism, and the motion of the mind -- The psychology of the single effect: Poe and the short-story genre -- Laws of the heart divine: Eureka and the poetics of the mind -- Reading the self: Fuller's magnetic juvenilia -- Transition states -- Exquisite sensibilities: Lydia Maria Child, Margaret Fuller, and magnetic reform -- Singing the American body electric: Whitman and the mesmeric turn
Summary "Examines how the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Margaret Fuller draw from representations of and theories concerning animal magnetism, somnambulism, or hypnosis rendered in newspapers, literary and medical journals, pamphlets, and books, and also includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Maria Child, and Walt Whitman"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index
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Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 1734-1815 -- Influence
SUBJECT Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 fast
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 1734-1815 fast
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 fast
Fuller, Margaret. swd
Poe, Edgar Allan. swd
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Mesmerism in literature.
Mesmerism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Altered states of consciousness in literature.
Animal magnetism in literature.
Sleepwalking in literature.
Hypnotism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Altered states of consciousness in literature
American literature
Animal magnetism in literature
Hypnotism in literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mesmerism
Mesmerism in literature
Psychology
Sleepwalking in literature
Mesmerismus
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005021968
ISBN 0826265006
9780826265005