Author: Baroness L. H. ProchazkaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Abduction; Or The Marvels of Mesmerism
Author: Baroness L. H. ProchazkaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Possessed Victorians
Author: Sarah A. WillburnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351909762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In her absorbing study of nineteenth-century mystical writings, Sarah Willburn formulates a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises to make important connections between contemporary writings on mysticism and fictional works. Willburn presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker and provides exciting new readings of well-known texts by Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, Martineau, and Corelli. An understanding of the Victorian fascination with mysticism, Willburn argues, leads to a better appreciation of cultural constructions of the citizen in England and of the public sphere. She introduces two key concepts against the backdrop of popular mysticism: "possessed individualism," a model for Victorian individualism based on spiritual possession, and "extra spheres," which complicate the traditional binary opposition of public and private. Together, these formulations urge us to rethink our views of Victorian political economy and gender as they pertain to mystical and religious practices.
A History of Euphoria
Author: Christopher MilnesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429647859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Very few people have not at some point in their lives believed themselves or their loved ones to be reasonably healthy when, in "reality", sickness was encroaching or never went away. Health has been deceiving us for thousands of years, but rarely have we entirely dispensed with it as a concept. This book sets out to establish why and how that might be. The first of its kind, this longue durée historical study explores some of the ways in which people in western societies and cultures have come to believe that they, or other people, have perceived or misperceived health, well-being and euphoria—a word which, before the twentieth century, usually named the experience of health. This book draws from a number of areas of historical research, including the histories of convalescence, addiction, madness and Sigmund Freud’s interest in Euphorie in his pre-psychoanalytical period.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Willis's Price Current of Literature and Monthly Book Advertiser
Author: The English Catalogue of Books: v. [1]. 1835-1863
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Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
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