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272 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226532165
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 30 March 2018
Description
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of t...
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272 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226532165
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 30 March 2018
Description
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of t...