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Credulity : a cultural history of US mesmerism / Emily Ogden

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Ogden, Emily
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xiv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Out on credulity! An introduction -- It does not exist: animal magnetism before it was true -- Beyond radical enchantment: mesmerizing laborers in the Americas -- In imagination: traveling clairvoyance and the suspension of disbelief -- Out of character: phrenomesmerism and the secular agent -- The spirit of Benjamin Franklin -- Coda: bagging the idol.
Summary
"From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances in parlors, on stage, and in medical offices. They were performing mesmerism. In the first comprehensive American history of mesmerism in thirty years, Emily Ogden connects the occult science to broad issues of faith, scepticism, and gullibility." Provided by Publisher.
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9780226532165 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
022653216X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780226532332 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
022653233X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780226532479 (electronic book)
022653247X (electronic book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
Endowment Note
The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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