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Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
by Darnton, Robert
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- ISBN-13: 9780674569515
- ISBN: 0674569512
- Publication Date: 1986
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
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A fascinating study of the effects that the theories of the notorious Viennese physician, Franz Mesmer, had upon social and political thinkers during the two decades preceding the French Revolution. This book is a skillful exploration of the various psychological factors that made mesmerism a widely accepted attitude...[The book] will interest literary scholars as well as historians since mesmerism is examined as a phenomenon that bequeathed an attitude that found its expression in the writings of the preromantics and the romantics.Darnton, Robert is the author of 'Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France', published 1986 under ISBN 9780674569515 and ISBN 0674569512.
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