Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism by Emily Ogden

Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism

Emily Ogden

272 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of t...

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