Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American RomanceUniversity of Alabama Press, 1998 - 197 páginas 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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... eyes upon an object so long ... is so evidently allied with ... animal magnetism , that no arguments seem necessary to prove the intimacy of the connection . . . . this condition may be produced spontaneously . By fixing the eye upon an ...
... eyes upon an object so long ... is so evidently allied with ... animal magnetism , that no arguments seem necessary to prove the intimacy of the connection . . . . this condition may be produced spontaneously . By fixing the eye upon an ...
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... eye , which they felt to be fixed upon them with an invisible glance ” ( 45 ) . Elizabeth's eyes are at first " fixed . . steadfastly upon the veil " ( 45 ) without any feeling of terror , but at the end of the interview , “ her eyes ...
... eye , which they felt to be fixed upon them with an invisible glance ” ( 45 ) . Elizabeth's eyes are at first " fixed . . steadfastly upon the veil " ( 45 ) without any feeling of terror , but at the end of the interview , “ her eyes ...
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... eyes intently fastened on the iron- clamped oaken door " ( 49 ) . Hawthorne goes on to identify the possible nature of the event about to take place and the bold and beefy women who speak about it — they prefer “ the brand of a hot iron ...
... eyes intently fastened on the iron- clamped oaken door " ( 49 ) . Hawthorne goes on to identify the possible nature of the event about to take place and the bold and beefy women who speak about it — they prefer “ the brand of a hot iron ...
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The Mesmerists Gaze and Hawthornes | 28 |
The Haunted House That Mesmerism Built | 91 |
The False and Mesmerized Consciousness | 106 |
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