Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968) (edit title/settings)

Shelfari edited the description of Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France Saturday, September 12, 2009.

• 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...ÝThe 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.