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The author explores the profound influence the mesmerist and spiritualist "craze" of the 1840s and 1850s had on Hawthorne's artistic vision and fictional techniques. Despite abhorring the "pseudosciences" as incarnations of witchcraft, their effect on the creation of his romances can be traced.
| ISBN: | 9780817308964 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press |
| Imprint: | University of Alabama Press |
| Pub date: | 28 Feb 1998 |
| DEWEY: | 813.3 |
| DEWEY edition: | 21 |
| Number of pages: | 197 |
| Weight: | 513g |
| Height: | 229mm |
| Width: | 152mm |
| Spine width: | 23mm |
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