That devil's trick
Hypnotism and the Victorian popular imagination
By: William Hughes
eBook | 1 November 2015 | Edition Number 1
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That devil's trick is the first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of the subject. Drawing on the reports of mesmerists, hypnotists, quack doctors and serious physicians printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the Victorian fin de siecle, the book provides an insight into how continental mesmerism was first understood in Britain, how a number of distinctively British varieties of mesmerism developed, and how these were continually debated in medical, moral and legal terms.
Highly relevant to the study of the many authors - Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Bram Stoker and Conan Doyle among them - whose fiction was informed by the imagery of mesmerism, That devil's trick will be an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader.
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Karl Bell, University of Portsmouth
'I would thoroughly recommend the book to anyone working in this area since Hughes's new research method has uncovered a host of original new materials and done a massive job of synthesis. He is to be commended for a serious and weighty volume of research that nuances our understanding of this aspect of nineteenth-century culture.'
Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck, University of London, Victorian Studies (issue 60.1) Autumn 2017
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ISBN: 9781526101983
ISBN-10: 152610198X
Published: 1st November 2015
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Edition Number: 1
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- Non-FictionLiterature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of LiteratureGeneral Literary StudiesLiterary Studies from 1800 to 1900
- Non-FictionHistorySpecific Events & Topics in HistorySocial & Cultural History
- Non-FictionPsychologyStates of ConsciousnessHypnosis
- Non-FictionLiterature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of LiteratureLiterary Studies of Fiction