10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MESMERIST»
Discover the use of
mesmerist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mesmerist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The
Mesmerist's Manual of Phenomena and Practice
With directions for applying mesmerism for the cure of diseases. for over 150 years Dr. Mesmer's work was distorted and falsified, because it threatened the commercial and political power interests of the status quo.
Miss Cordelia Preston, a beautiful, ageing, out-of-work actress terrified of returning to the poverty of her childhood, suddenly emerges as a Lady Phreno-Mesmerist.
“And whose carriage is even now entering the yard,” added the mesmerist. “
Some friend of yours who does me the honor to call?” “Just as you say, a friend of
mine.” “The Right Honorable the Countess Dubarry!” announced a valet at the
study ...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
The. Mesmerist. and. Mathias. /N THIS DRAMA Mathias, the Burgomaster, is
brought before the court and charged with the murder of the Polish Jew. The aid
of a mesmerist is called in, and Mathias is throicn into a trance, and in answer to
the ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Marion Harland, 2004
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Victorian Literary Mesmerism
E. H. C. Oliphant's The Mesmerist (1890) responds to this question, which
preoccupied both the medical profession and the lay public, presenting us with a
criminal hypnotic subject other than a hypnotist. Deriving important
circumstances of ...
Martin Willis, Catherine Wynne, 2006
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Mesmerism in its relation to health and disease
William NEILSON (Mesmerist.) home, to be an illustrious quotation of the Hocus-
pocus of Imagination. Why ? 4 Because she was cured without drugs. The power
that mental influence has of stimulating the curative force of the brain, has been ...
William NEILSON (Mesmerist.), 1855
Another practitioner of the occult sciences enters the story (working for Generalissimo Franco, using his mesmeric expertise to interrogate prisoners) — as do Mme. Curie, tarot cards, an assassination, and nightmares.
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The Great Succession: Henry James and the Legacy of Hawthorne
A possible source for the tale is Turgenev's "A Strange Story," in which a narrator
relates a disturbing experience he has witnessed. He encounters a weird,
vagrant mesmerist who has, or seems to have, the power of communicating
mystical ...
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Easy Guide to Mesmerism and Hypnotism
Personally, I consider that Captain James was the most successful mesmerist
since the days of Dr. Elliotson, whose friend and pupil he was. This gallant British
officer served his country in the 90th Light Infantry, and had many opportunities of
...
Marco Paret, James Coates, 2007
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Science and the Imagination: Mesmerism, Media, and the Mind ...
who found various defects in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance, hoped to
produce a new breed of mesmerist satire." Even though there are allusions to
occult powers in his novel, they do not penetrate the realistic level of the narrative
but are ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MESMERIST»
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mesmerist is used in the context of the following news items.
Sanford Berman, longtime stage hypnotist, 90
But it was as Dr. Michael Dean, the flamboyant mesmerist with the black pompadour, that the scholar found fame — and fortune. A fixture of San ... «U-T San Diego, Jul 15»
Geffen Playhouse Announces Board Vice Chair to Serve as …
His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning), The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
Philip Marchand: The function of humour
... starting with a nineteenth-century tale, “The Ecstasy of Edgar Alabaster,” about a mesmerist experimenting with animal magnetism on a dying ... «National Post, Jun 15»
The Future of Identity Politics
... polishes up his golf game, I am looking to elect a leader to the White House in 2016 not a community activist or even a gifted mesmerist. «American Spectator, Jun 15»
The Prospectors
But Lee kept his golden eyes fixed on me, and soon it became difficult to say who was the mesmerist and who was succumbing to hypnosis. «The New Yorker, May 15»
Brighton Fringe: John Crampton, The Mesmerist, Prince Albert Street …
You might think blues singer with guitar: rather dull music listened to by a few old men. John Crampton proves you wrong on all counts. «The Argus, May 15»
How To Have A Cheap Weekend In Brighton If You Can't Afford To …
Pretty much across the street is the vast Mesmerist, which becomes a wobbling mass of boobs and beards jiving to reliably retro, rock and roll ... «The Debrief, May 15»
Festivals 2015: The Great Escape – Day Three
then, as I made an eager trip over to The Mesmerist, the principle venue for The Alternative Escape that acts as TGE's fringe event. It was here ... «Nouse, May 15»
The Great Escape 2015: Bully, Drenge, Tobias Jesso Jr and Ho99o9 …
A quick dash around the corner to The Mesmerist sees Black Honey causing all sorts of chaos with a hometown crowd at their fingertips. «DIY Magazine, May 15»
Truro actors set to take unique hypnosis play to Edinburgh Fringe
Paul Henshall and Anna Scutt are set to perform at the Fringe with The Marvellous Mechanical Mesmerist. The couple from Truro, who both ... «West Briton, May 15»
