Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index.
Charting the mesmeric turn: sympathy, animal magnetism, and the motion of the mind -- The psychology of the single effect: Poe and the short-story genre -- Laws of the heart divine: Eureka and the poetics of the mind -- Reading the self: Fuller's magnetic juvenilia -- Transition states -- Exquisite sensibilities: Lydia Maria Child, Margaret Fuller, and magnetic reform -- Singing the American body electric: Whitman and the mesmeric turn.
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"Examines how the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Margaret Fuller draw from representations of and theories concerning animal magnetism, somnambulism, or hypnosis rendered in newspapers, literary and medical journals, pamphlets, and books, and also includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Maria Child, and Walt Whitman"--Provided by publisher.
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