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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... idea , by isolating one's self in the completest manner from all surrounding and extraneous things , the state of semi - trance may be induced . " 5 This act of perception , which undermines the objectivity of objects and essentially ...
... idea , by isolating one's self in the completest manner from all surrounding and extraneous things , the state of semi - trance may be induced . " 5 This act of perception , which undermines the objectivity of objects and essentially ...
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... idea [ that ] may have been no dream , " that man's original " fellowship with every living thing [ may have been ] ... ideas “ look evanescent and visionary alike ” when “ viewed through this medium ” of Rome and the " ponderous ...
... idea [ that ] may have been no dream , " that man's original " fellowship with every living thing [ may have been ] ... ideas “ look evanescent and visionary alike ” when “ viewed through this medium ” of Rome and the " ponderous ...
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... idea . " " 2 The new critical neoorthodox emphasis on moral ideas is debatable and may lead to a misreading of Hawthorne's actual approach , but Waggoner would agree with Davidson's description of the general failure of these late ...
... idea . " " 2 The new critical neoorthodox emphasis on moral ideas is debatable and may lead to a misreading of Hawthorne's actual approach , but Waggoner would agree with Davidson's description of the general failure of these late ...
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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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