Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature by Maria Tatar
Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature

Maria Tatar

Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature

Maria Tatar

320 pages first pub 1978 (view editions)

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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...

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