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18th Century: Enlightenment and the Unexplained

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The Frightening Borderlands of Enlightenment: The Vampire Problem
Author: Bräunlein, Peter J.
Publication: Studies In History & Philosophy Of Biological & Biomedical Sciences 43, no. 3 (September 2012): 710-719
'Dr. Johnson’s Ghost’: Genesis of a Satirical Engraving
Author: Brownell, Morris R.
Publication: Huntington Library Quarterly 50, no. 4 (December 1987): 339-357
Conducting the Vital Fluid: The Politics and Poetics of Mesmerism in the 1790s
Author: Fulford, Tim
Publication: Studies in Romanticism 43, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 57-78
Swedenborg and the Mystical Enlightenment in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Garrett, Clarke
Publication: Journal of the History of Ideas 45, no. 1 (1984): 67-81
Missionaries, Methodists, and a Ghost: Philip Quaque in London and Cape Coast, 1756-1816
Author: Glasson, Travis
Publication: Journal of British Studies 48, no. 1 (January 2009): 29-50
Visions of an Unseen world: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Handley, Sasha
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2007
The Decline of Magic: Challenge and Response in Early Enlightenment England
Author: Hunter, Michael
Publication: The Historical Journal 55, no. 2 (June 2012): 399-425
The Aetiology of Vampires and Revenants: Theological Debate and Popular Belief
Author: Keyworth, David
Publication: Journal of Religious History 34, no. 2 (June 2010): 158-173
We See a Ghost: Hogarth’s Satire on Methodists and Connoisseurs
Author: Krysmanski, Bernd
Publication: Art Bulletin 80, no. 2 (June 1998): 292-310
Franklin and Mesmer: An Encounter
Author: Lopez, Claude-Anne
Publication: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 66 (1993): 325-331
James Boaden’s Fontainville Forest and Matthew G. Lewis’ The Castle Spectre: Challenges of the Supernatural Ghost on the Late Eighteenth-Century Stage
Author: Reno, Robert R
Publication: Eighteenth-Century Life 9, no. 1 (Winter 1984): 95-106
From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment
Author: Schmidt, Leigh Eric
Publication: Church History 67, no. 2 (June 1998): 274-305
Mary Toft, Religion and National Memory in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Shaw, Jane
Publication: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 32, no. 3 (September 2009): 321-338
Pale Blewish Lights
Author: Winiarski, Douglas L.
Publication: The William and Mary Quarterly 55, no. 4 (October 1998): 497-530

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