TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ogden,Emily
TI  - Credulity: a cultural history of US mesmerism 
T2  - Class 200: new studies in religion
SN  - 9780226532479
AV  - BF1125 .O33 2018eb
U1  - 154.70973/09034 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Mesmerism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Credulity
KW  - Mesm�erisme
KW  - �Etats-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e si�ecle
KW  - Cr�edulit�e
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - gtt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers a comprehensive account of those boom years
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