Estelle L’Hardy’s Ecstatic State and Jenny Wren’s Blessed Children: Dickens’s Invention within the Evolving Mental Sciences
In Our Mutual Friend, Dickens brilliantly exploits the medical climax in the recovery of the ‘incurable’ Estelle L’Hardy (1836–37), a paralyzed Swiss girl who self-hypnotized a celestial choir to assuage menacing pain. When the French doctor and pioneer Antoine Despine finally learned of her nightly...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2022
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