期刊名称：Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
印刷版ISSN：1755-1560
出版年度：2010
卷号：0
期号：10
页码：1-19
DOI：10.16995/ntn.530
出版社：Birkbeck College, University of London
摘要：Dickens’s experiments with mesmerism belonged to a period in which the scientific understanding of the phenomena by experimental investigators began to diffuse into popular forms.Even though explanation and knowledge gradually clustered on the side of professional and elite science, and pure performance became more characteristic of popular expositions and demonstrations of mesmerism, explanation and performance remained closely and intricately intertwined.It would be tempting to contend that Dickens asserted and enoyed a comic self-distancing from the often frankly absurd theatrical mechanics of mesmerism.But, this article argues, Dickens was at times at least partly under, as well as beyond reach of the influence.
