That Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination by William Hughes

That Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination

William Hughes

256 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art classics history literary psychology dark informative medium-paced

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That devil's trick is the first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of the subject. Drawing on the reports of mesmerists, hypnotists, quack doctors and serious physicians printe...

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