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Svengali's Web - The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture (Paperback)
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Svengali's Web - The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture (Paperback)
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Svengali, the malevolent hypnotist in a sensationally successful
novel published by George du Maurier in 1894, became such a
well-known character in the culture of the period that his name
entered the dictionary as one who exerts a malign persuasiveness on
another. This book explores the origins and impact of Svengali and
his helplessly mesmerized female victim Trilby in an age already
rife with discussions of race, influence, and the unconscious mind.
Daniel Pick points out that Svengali was a Jew as well as a
dangerous hypnotist; his depiction struck a chord not only with
pervasive nineteenth-century forebodings about irrational
interpersonal forces and psychic contacts but also with prevalent
anti-Semitic assumptions. He shows how Svengali became the
quintessential dark hypnotist of the fin de siecle, whose image was
recycled in pictures, drama, verse, and films. Pick not only
discusses the work of mesmerists, hypnotists, and critics of
entrancement but also relates tales of surrogate passion and
psychological foreboding that feature opera singer Jenny Lind,
composer Richard Wagner, politician Benjamin Disraeli, novelist
Henry James, and others. The book identifies and illuminates a
psychological and historical preoccupation-a cluster of Victorian
ideas and images, fears and fantasies of psychic invasion and
racial hypnosis that crystallized in the figure and phenomenon of
Svengali.
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