Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction by Fred Kaplan

Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction

Fred Kaplan

250 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

reflective medium-paced
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The mesmeric movement in England, particularly its controversial activities during the late 1830s and the 1840s, intensified Dickens' concern with the ways in which people discover and exert their energies and will to control each other. Dickens' ...

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