Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction

by Fred Kaplan

Drawing on fresh source material, Fred Kaplan considers the importance From Dickens and Mesmerism of Dickens' involvement with mesmerism for his work and his personality. In so doing he describes a significant intellectual and spiritual movement and provides new and controversial insights into Dickens' fiction. The mesmeric movement in England, particularly its controversial activities during the late 1830s and the 1840s, intensified Dickens' concern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691062919
• ISBN13: 9780691062914
• Release Date: December 1975
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.