Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France / / Robert Darnton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Darnton, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; 1. Mesmerism and Popular Science --; 2. The Mesmerist Movement 3. The Radical Strain in Mesmerism --; 4. Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory --; 5. From Mesmer to Hugo --; 6. Conclusion --; Bibliographical Note --; Appendix 1. Mesmer's Propositions --; Appendix 2. The Milieu of Amateur Scientists in Paris --; Appendix 3. The Societe de !'Harmonie Universelle --; Appendix 4. Bergasse's Lectures on Mesmerism --; Appendix 5. The Emblem and Textbook of the Societes de !'Harmonie --; Appendix 6. An Antimesmerist View --; Appendix 7. French Passages Translated in the Text --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674030190; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674030190?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert Darnton.

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.