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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... is the obliquity or indeterminacy of signs . " This process can only result in the discovery and continuing pursuit of ulti- 993 mate mysteries , the dark problem of life that requires 69 The Spell of the Scarlet Letter: A Mesmeric Mystery.
... is the obliquity or indeterminacy of signs . " This process can only result in the discovery and continuing pursuit of ulti- 993 mate mysteries , the dark problem of life that requires 69 The Spell of the Scarlet Letter: A Mesmeric Mystery.
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Mediums of American Romance Samuel Coale. mate mysteries , the dark problem of life that requires no other explana- tion and before which all analysis and speculation that may ... problem to be solved 70 The Spell of the Scarlet Letter.
Mediums of American Romance Samuel Coale. mate mysteries , the dark problem of life that requires no other explana- tion and before which all analysis and speculation that may ... problem to be solved 70 The Spell of the Scarlet Letter.
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Mediums of American Romance Samuel Coale. thorne's intellect as a kind of problem to be solved or guessed . And it also takes on the contours of yet another aspect of an image : the repre- sentation or embodiment of some elusive mental ...
Mediums of American Romance Samuel Coale. thorne's intellect as a kind of problem to be solved or guessed . And it also takes on the contours of yet another aspect of an image : the repre- sentation or embodiment of some elusive mental ...
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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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