Victorian Literary Mesmerism

Martin Willis is Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan and author of Mesmerists, Monsters and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century.Catherine Wynne is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull and author of The Colonial Conan Doyle: British Imperialism, Irish Nationalism, and the Gothic.

• Martin WILLIS and Catherine WYNNE: IntroductionIlana KURSHAN: Mind Reading: Literature in the Discourse of Early Victorian Phrenology and MesmerismGavin BUDGE: Mesmerism and Medicine in Bulwer-Lytton’s Novels of the OccultAnthony ENNS: Mesmerism and the Electric Age: From Poe to EdisonLouise HENSON: Mesmeric Delusions: Mind and Mental Training in Elizabeth Gaskell’s WritingsTiffany DONNELLY: Mesmerism, Clairvoyance and Literary Culture in Mid-Century AustraliaAngelic RODGERS: Jim Crows, Veiled Ladies and True Womanhood: Mesmerism in The House of the Seven GablesMartin WILLIS: George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil and the Cultural Politics of ClairvoyanceSharrona PEARL: Dazed and Abused: Gender and Mesmerism in Wilkie CollinsAlisha SIEBERS: Marie Corelli’s Magnetic Revitalizing PowerMary Elizabeth LEIGHTON: Under the Influence: Crime and Hypnotic Fictions of the Fin de SiècleCatherine WYNNE: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Domestic Desires: Mesmerism, Mediumship and Femmes FatalesNotes on ContributorsBibliography Index