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Credulity : a cultural history of US mesmerism / Emily Ogden.
LIBRA BF1125 .O33 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ogden, Emily, author.
- Series:
- Class 200, new studies in religion
- Class 200: New Studies In Religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mesmerism--United States--History--19th century.
- Mesmerism.
- Credulity--United States--History--19th century.
- Credulity.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Out on credulity! An introduction
- It does not exist: animal magnetism before it was true
- Beyond radical enchantment: mesmerizing laborers in the Americas
- In imagination: traveling clairvoyance and the suspension of disbelief
- Out of character: phrenomesmerism and the secular agent
- The spirit of Benjamin Franklin
- Coda: bagging the idol.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780226532165
- 022653216X
- 9780226532332
- 022653233X
- OCLC:
- 1001363980
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