Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American RomanceUniversity of Alabama Press, 1998 - 197 oldal In Mesmerism and Hawthorne, Coale examines the mesmerist-spiritualist craze and relates it specifically to the way in which Hawthorne wrote fiction. Although many critics have discussed mesmerism as a theme in Hawthorne's work, few have analyzed the use of mesmerism as an influence on the very structure and texture of that work. For Hawthorne, mesmerism provided a fertile circumstance, complete with its sense of enchantment and the necessity of breaking its spell. The powers and techniques of mesmerism offered Hawthorne a way of describing the fiction he was trying to create. In effect what he described as the romance participates in the very acts of mesmerism it invokes and thematically or morally opposes. |
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... mesmeric clairvoyance as physiological fact . " 33 He seems to have believed ... powers can be seen in a letter to Sophia of October 18 , 1841 : " And ... mesmeric practices , he exposed his real argu- ment against them . He opposed the ...
... mesmeric clairvoyance as physiological fact . " 33 He seems to have believed ... powers can be seen in a letter to Sophia of October 18 , 1841 : " And ... mesmeric practices , he exposed his real argu- ment against them . He opposed the ...
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... powers beyond its own existence as a physically visible or literal image that it seems to embody and possess strange and mesmeric powers of its own . This trans- ference in a sense lures the self away from contemplating its own absence ...
... powers beyond its own existence as a physically visible or literal image that it seems to embody and possess strange and mesmeric powers of its own . This trans- ference in a sense lures the self away from contemplating its own absence ...
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... power to transform himself into a medium during the period of recovery in his sickbed ; and the ease with which Coverdale himself becomes compelled and transfixed by the powers of other individuals . Such mesmeric powers pervade The ...
... power to transform himself into a medium during the period of recovery in his sickbed ; and the ease with which Coverdale himself becomes compelled and transfixed by the powers of other individuals . Such mesmeric powers pervade The ...
Tartalomjegyzék
The Mesmerists Gaze and Hawthornes | 28 |
The Haunted House That Mesmerism Built | 91 |
The False and Mesmerized Consciousness | 106 |
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Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American Romance Samuel Chase Coale,Samuel Coale Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2000 |
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