Poe, Fuller, and the mesmeric arts [electronic resource] : transition states in the American Renaissance / Bruce Mills.
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TextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005Description: 202 pSubject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Knowledge -- Psychology | Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Knowledge -- Psychology | Mesmer, Franz Anton, 1734-1815 -- Influence | 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/353 LOC classification: PS217.M47 | M55 2005Online resources: Click to View 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
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