Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American RomanceUniversity of Alabama Press, 1998 - 197 pagina's 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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... look like truth [ with this scene before him ] , he need never try to write romances " ( 36 ) . 11 But the key to the scene is the addition of the mirror.11 Thomas R. Hazard in 1873 describes " the extreme sensitiveness of a medium's ...
... look like truth [ with this scene before him ] , he need never try to write romances " ( 36 ) . 11 But the key to the scene is the addition of the mirror.11 Thomas R. Hazard in 1873 describes " the extreme sensitiveness of a medium's ...
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... look of a democratic death ? —and " an engraved escutcheon ... so sombre is it , and relieved only by one ever glowing point of light gloomier than the shadow : ' On a field , sable , the letter A , gules ' " ( 264 ) .20 Hawthorne ...
... look of a democratic death ? —and " an engraved escutcheon ... so sombre is it , and relieved only by one ever glowing point of light gloomier than the shadow : ' On a field , sable , the letter A , gules ' " ( 264 ) .20 Hawthorne ...
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... look up , and catch a glimpse of external objects . We seem , at such moments , to look farther and deeper into them than is possible by any premeditated observation ; it is as if they met our eyes alive , and with all their hidden ...
... look up , and catch a glimpse of external objects . We seem , at such moments , to look farther and deeper into them than is possible by any premeditated observation ; it is as if they met our eyes alive , and with all their hidden ...
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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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