Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction by Kaplan, Fred - 1975

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Clean and sharp brown cloth hardcover with only minimal shelfwear and slight paste-action to the lower hinge of the rear endpapers. Text clean and unmarked, binding sound. Dust jacket gently rubbed and shelfworn; un-clipped and in a protective mylar cover. Examines both the role of mesmerism in 1840s England and Dickens' as a mesmerist himself, and the ways in which it inflected his fiction. 250 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.