Poe, Fuller, and the mesmeric arts
Subtitle: transition states in the American Renaissance
By: Bruce Mills.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780826216106
Subjects: 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 literature.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.