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Improvisation, Blankness and Mesmerism: Mike Leggett and Ian Breakwell’s Sheet and the Two Avant-Gardes [PDF]
Angles, 2021 This article examines Mike Leggett and Ian Breakwell’s short film Sheet. Though little scholarship exists on Sheet, the enigmatic quality of the film and the sheet that gives it its name has given rise to a number of contrasting interpretations.
Kieran Devaney
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La diffusione del mesmerismo nell’ambiente culturale napoletano
Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2023 The spread of mesmerism in the Neapolitan cultural milieu Federigo Verdinois’ Racconti inverisimili (1886) Federigo Verdinois (1844-1927) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer, one of the most influent intellectuals of the Neapolitan ...
Gennaro Ambrosino
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Le strade nascoste del mesmerismo [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2015 [The hidden routes of mesmerism].The recent book Mesmer et mesmerismes. Le magnétisme animal en contexte (edited byB. Belhoste and N. Edelman, Montreuil, Omniscience, 2015) offers a new view on the history of animal magnetism.
Riccio, Monica
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Académies et création du savoir scientifique: circulation des idées et mécanismes de la censure [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2016 [Academies and the creation of scientific knowledge: the circulation of ideas and censorships mechanisms]. This article analyses how European academies contributed to shape the idea of scientific truth in the second half of XVIIIth century. It focuses on
Patrizia Delpiano
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Animal Magnetism; A Mesmerizing Yet Controversial Past of Healing Sciences
International Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research, 2020 Background: Animal magnetism gained popularity in the 18th century specifically among Europeans and the people from the United States. The Mesmer’s theory on animal magnetism emphasized the presence of invisible natural force in all living organisms i.e.
Shamoon Noushad
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Culture & History Digital Journal, 2020 In this paper I will explore the stereotype of the stage hypnotist in fiction literature through the analysis of the novellas Professor Fargo (1874) by Henry James (1843-1916) and Drink: A Love Story on a Great Question (1890) by Hall Caine (1853-1931 ...
Juan Marcos Bonet Safont
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Diciottesimo Secolo, 2023 Mesmerism was built in newspapers and in response to newspapers. Never before probably had an issue of public health been discussed with so much verbal violence. Whom henceforth was recognized medical authority?
Claire Gantet
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All I Believed is True: Dickens under the Influence
19, 2010 Dickens’s experiments with mesmerism belonged to a period in which the scientific understanding of the phenomena by experimental investigators began to diffuse into popular forms.
Steven Connor
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