Credulity : a cultural history of US mesmerism / Emily Ogden.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, c2018.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Serie:
Class 200
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. List of abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Out on credulity! An introdutcion. 1. It does not exist: animal magnetism before it was true 2. Beyond radical enchantment: mesmerizing laborers in the americas 3. In imagination: traveling clairvoyance and the suspansion of disbelief 4. Out of character: phrenomesmerism and the secular agent 5. The spirit of Benjamin Franklin. Coda: bagging the idol. Selected bibliography. Index.
