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La imagen del magnetismo animal en la literatura de ficción : los casos de Poe, Doyle y Du Maurier
2014
En el presente trabajo nos acercamos a la imagen social del fenómeno conocido como mesmerismo o magnetismo animal a través del análisis de las obras: The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar (1845) de Edgar Allan Poe, The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1885) de Conan Doyle y Trilby (1894) de George Du Maurier. Mostraremos cuál es el estereotipo del magnetizador y los usos que observamos del mesmerismo. Nos acercaremos a los espacios y actores del trasunto mesmerico presentado en los relatos. Tendremos en cuenta la recepción por parte del público de estas historias y las relaciones con los conocimientos mesmericos e hipnóticos que tenían los autores de éstas. En la actualidad, investigadores acadé…
Los estereotipos del magnetizador e hipnotizador en la literatura inglesa de ficción del siglo XIX
2020
The thesis "Stereotypes of the magnetizer and hypnotist in English fiction literature of the 19th Century" is made up of three research papers. In the first paper, entitled "The picture of Animal Magnetism in Fiction Literature: The Cases of Poe, Doyle, and Du Maurier," I discuss the following texts: The Facts in the Case of M.Valdemar (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe, The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1885) by Arthur Conan Doyle and Trilby (1894) by George Du Maurier. Thus, the case of Poe serves to present the historical overview of the diffusion and reception of animal magnetism in the United States, that of Doyle for the German case and that of Du Maurier for the British case. After these brief …
Hypnosis, Animal Magnetism, and Monstrosity in late Nineteenth Century English Literature
2019
We will explore the literary image of animal magnetism and hypnosis through the analysis of two works of fiction: the novels Richard Marsh’s The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). During all the 19th century and mainly at its last, many authors used animal magnetism and hypnosis in their fictional creations in an environmental or plot way, so much that Arthur Quiller-Couch, an important literary critic of the nineteenth century, spoke about the emergence of a new literary subgenre that he called “hypnotic fiction”. Starting from the idea that in this mesmeric and hypnotic fiction literature you can clearly trace differentiated stereotypes of magnetizers and hypnotist…