Mesmerized
Subtitle: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780226902234
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Hypnosis; Philosophy of science; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Hypnotism; Psychology & Psychiatry / Hypnotism; History - General History; Psychology
First sentence: IN THE SPRING OF 1845, the popular family serial, the New Monthly Magazine, satirically announced the discovery of a new land: the island of Mesmeria.