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Michelle Sizemore, American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-revolutionary World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £53.00). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 1906 2753 9. - Emily Ogden, Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018, $27.50/£20.50). Pp. 272. isbn978 0 2265 3233 2.

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Michelle Sizemore, American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-revolutionary World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, £53.00). Pp. 256. isbn978 0 1906 2753 9.
Emily Ogden, Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018, $27.50/£20.50). Pp. 272. isbn978 0 2265 3233 2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

HANNAH LAUREN MURRAY
HANNAH LAUREN MURRAY*
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University of Liverpool
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , October 2020 , pp. 816 - 819
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2 Levin, Harry, The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1980), 19Google Scholar.