Martin WILLIS / Catherine WYNNE (eds.)

Victorian Literary Mesmerism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Victorian Literary Mesmerism examines the engagement between literature and mesmerism in Victorian writing. Drawing on recent trends in interdisciplinary literary scholarship the essays collected here investigate the complex connections between scientific mesmerism, its manifestations in the Victorian social and cultural world, and the literary imagination. Here, for the first time, the varied themes and contexts shaped by mesmeric practices are brought together in one volume. Mesmerism's influence on phrenology, medicine and mental health; its interaction with the occult and with communication technologies; the effects of mesmeric principles on gender and sexuality, as well as on criminal behaviour, are all set within the context of literary texts that interrogate and critique mesmerism's influence on the Victorians. This volume will be of interest, therefore, to scholars of Victorian literature and the history of science, as well as to those interested in cultural history with a focus on gender, sexuality, and sciences of the mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9789042020085
• ISBN-10: 9042020083
• Artikelnr.: 24354637

Autorenporträt

Martin Willis is Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan and author of Mesmerists, Monsters and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century. Catherine Wynne is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull and author of The Colonial Conan Doyle: British Imperialism, Irish Nationalism, and the Gothic.