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Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature
By (Author) Maria Tatar
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
820.9353
Hardback
320
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
624g
Franz Anton Mesmer's concept of animal magnetism exercised a profound influence on key European and American thinkers. Mesmer, who saw in his discovery the secret of health, had hoped to recover the harmony between man and nature by harnessing the power of magnetic fluids. In calling attention to the existence of a second self that surfaces in the