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“So Extraordinary a Bond”: Mesmerism and Sympathetic Identification in Charles Adams’s Notting Hill Mystery (2017)

Lara Pauline Karpenko (Author)

Pages: 145-163

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1qv5ncp.12

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Science and literature Medicine and culture Medicine Human physiology Physiology Mesmerism 19th century Adams, Charles Warren

Lara Karpenko examines the relationship between mesmeric influence and the infectious popularity of the sensation novel. Focusing on the distinctly physical aspects of mesmerism (through touch) and sensation fiction (through bodily response), Karpenko contends that both science and literature participated in a shared discourse of sympathy that radically posited the possibility of collapsing the boundary between self and other, not despite of, but through, the body. Karpenko goes on to explore how these two strands of sympathy are conflated in Charles Adams’s Notting Hill Mystery, a work that both replicates and critiques aspects of the sensation novel in its depiction of a series of murders accomplished through mesmeric control. Far from reading it as a sentimental Victorian concept, Karpenko reveals that sympathy was often imagined as a potentially destructive force. (From Introduction, page 10)

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