ELH., Volume 72Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 ELH publishes studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The journal seeks to emphasize the importance of historical continuity in the discipline of letters without sponsoring particular methods or aims. |
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... mesmeric . Perceptions of telegraphy may be crucial to Peirce's theoretical elaborations , and via Poe as well as Peirce , to Derrida's . I turn to Poe's writings on mesmerism to articulate the relations between the new technology's ...
... mesmeric . Perceptions of telegraphy may be crucial to Peirce's theoretical elaborations , and via Poe as well as Peirce , to Derrida's . I turn to Poe's writings on mesmerism to articulate the relations between the new technology's ...
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... mesmerism and sympathy is close : mesmeric or magnetic fluid is the stuff of the network of sympathy , and Poe radically condenses this fluid within his theory of mesmeric sensation.23 Where Bennett's more sentimen- talizing telegraphic ...
... mesmerism and sympathy is close : mesmeric or magnetic fluid is the stuff of the network of sympathy , and Poe radically condenses this fluid within his theory of mesmeric sensation.23 Where Bennett's more sentimen- talizing telegraphic ...
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... mesmeric method may have more to do with Poe's intense desire for successful written material than with anything else . The psychal space , at once Poe's own and shared by " all mankind " - which , if tapped through mesmerism ...
... mesmeric method may have more to do with Poe's intense desire for successful written material than with anything else . The psychal space , at once Poe's own and shared by " all mankind " - which , if tapped through mesmerism ...
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Libertine Spaces and the Female Body in the Poetry of Rochester | 553 |
Shelleys Uncertain Heaven | 577 |
Everyday War | 605 |
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