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Mesmerism

Alvarado, Carlos S. “Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Discussions of Animal Magnetism.” Intl. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, vol. 57, no. 4, Aug. 2009, pp. 366–381, doi:10.1080/00207140903098510.

Crabtree, Adam. Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925 : an annotated bibliography. White Plains, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications, 1988. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/4478901

Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. "Mesmerism and Spiritualism." The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction. Oxford University Press, September 22, 2011. Oxford Scholarship Online.https://oxford-universitypressscholarship-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320992.001.0001/acprof-9780195320992-chapter-10

Kaplan, Fred. “‘The Mesmeric Mania’: The Early Victorians and Animal Magnetism.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 35, no. 4, 1974, pp. 691–702. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2709095.

Spiritualism

Delgado, L. Anne. “Psychical Research and the Fantastic Science of Spirits.” Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age, edited by Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2017, pp. 236–253. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1qv5ncp.17.

Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. "Mesmerism and Spiritualism." The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction. Oxford University Press, September 22, 2011. Oxford Scholarship Online. https://oxford-universitypressscholarship-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195320992.001.0001/acprof-9780195320992-chapter-10

Harvey, David Allen. “Elite Magic in the Nineteenth Century.” The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present, edited by David J. Collins, S. J., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015, pp. 547–575.

Lamont, Peter. “Spiritualism And A Mid-Victorian Crisis Of Evidence.” The Historical Journal, vol. 47, no. 4, Dec. 2004, pp. 897–920, doi:10.1017/S0018246X04004030.

Tromp, Marlene. “Spirited Sexulality: Sex, Magic, and Victorian Spiritualism.” Victorian Literature and Culture, 2003, pp. 67–81.

Material Culture

Briefel, Aviva. “‘Freaks of Furniture’: The Useless Energy of Haunted Things.” Victorian Studies, vol. 59, no. 2, 2017, pp. 209–234. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.59.2.01.

Marini, Francesca. “Exhibitions in Special Collections, Rare Book Libraries and Archives: Questions to Ask Ourselves.” Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, vol. 29, no. 1-2, 2019, pp. 8–29., doi:10.1177/0955749019876122.

Thiemeyer, Thomas. “The Literary Exhibition as Epistemic Method: How the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach Reinterprets Literary Archives.” Word & Image, vol. 33, no. 4, 2017, pp. 362–375., doi:10.1080/02666286.2017.1326787

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