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Poe, Fuller, and the mesmeric arts : transition states in the American Renaissance

"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
eBook, English, ©2006
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xx, 202 pages) : illustrations
9780826265005, 0826265006
70793028
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
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010