In Poe, Fuller, and the Mesmeric Arts, Bruce Mills examines how the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Margaret Fuller draw from representations of and theories concerning animal magnetism, somnambulism, or hypnosis rendered in newspapers, literary and medical journals, pamphlets, and books. Although some recent studies have begun to consider the relevance of animal magnetism or mesmerism to nineteenth-century literature and culture, this book moves more deeply into what might be termed the canon of mesmeric study. More Reviews and Recommendations

Bruce Mills is Professor of English at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. He is the author of Cultural Reformations: Lydia Maria Child and the Literature of Reform and the editor of Lydia Maria Child’s Letters from New York.

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