Drawing on fresh source material, Fred Kaplan considers the
importance From Dickens and Mesmerism of Dickens' involvement with
mesmerism for his work and his personality. In so doing he
describes a significant intellectual and spiritual movement and
provides new and controversial insights into Dickens' fiction. The
mesmeric movement in England, particularly its controversial
activities during the late 1830s and the 1840s, intensified
Dickens' concern with the ways in which people discover and exert
their energies and will to control each other. Dickens' own
activities as a mesmerist provide the biographical touchstone for
his image of himself as a doctor of the mind. Fred Kaplan examines
the author's entire oeuvre in a synoptic, thematic fashion,
exploring the attitudes shaped by the mesmerists that are reflected
in the novels' psychological tensions. The final chapter provides
an overview of the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern currents that
may be found in Dickens' fascination with mesmeric power.
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