Victorian Literary Mesmerism

Victorian Literary Mesmerism examines the engagement between literatureand mesmerism in Victorian writing. Drawing on recent trends ininterdisciplinary literary scholarship the essays collected here investigatethe complex connections between scientific mesmerism, its manifestationsin the Victorian social and cultural world, and the literary imagination. Here,for the first time, the varied themes and contexts shaped by mesmericpractices are brought together in one volume. Mesmerism's influence on