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Chapter 10 - Mesmerism and Other Pseudo-Sciences

from Part II - Popular Culture and Social Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2018

By
Samuel Chase Coale
Edited by
Monika M. Elbert
Monika M. Elbert
Affiliation:
Montclair State University, New Jersey
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Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context , pp. 126 - 135
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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