Victorian literary mesmerism

Willis, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4186-2921 and Wynne, Catherine, eds. 2006. Victorian literary mesmerism. Rodopi Press. 10.1163/9789401203012

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Abstract

Victorian Literary Mesmerism examines the engagement between literature and mesmerism in Victorian writing. Drawing on recent trends in interdisciplinary literary scholarship the essays collected here investigate the complex connections between scientific mesmerism, its manifestations in the Victorian social and cultural world, and the literary imagination. Here, for the first time, the varied themes and contexts shaped by mesmeric practices are brought together in one volume. Mesmerism’s influence on phrenology, medicine and mental health; its interaction with the occult and with communication technologies; the effects of mesmeric principles on gender and sexuality, as well as on criminal behaviour, are all set within the context of literary texts that interrogate and critique mesmerism’s influence on the Victorians. This volume will be of interest, therefore, to scholars of Victorian literature and the history of science, as well as to those interested in cultural history with a focus on gender, sexuality, and sciences of the mind.

Item Type:	Book - edited
Book Type:	Edited Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Publisher:	Rodopi Press
ISBN:	9789042020085
Last Modified:	15 Apr 2026 12:19
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85914

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