Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology : Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteent...

Description: Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology : Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-century Esoteric Culture, Hardcover by Peet, Malcolm; Rix, Robert (FRW), ISBN 0854482059, ISBN-13 9780854482054, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Malcolm Peet&;s Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology: Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture explores the life and cultural milieu of the nineteenth-century Swedenborgian James John Garth Wilkinson (1812-99), whose largely forgotten influence touched a diverse range of intellectual fields and social reform movements. In the early chapters, Peet offers a brief biographical sketch of Wilkinson and a concise history of Swedenborg&;s reception in England, touching on the involvement of such figures as John Clowes, Robert Hindmarsh, Manoah Sibly, Ebenezer Sibly, and Charles Augustus Tulk. Subsequent chapters go on to explore Wilkinson&;s early role in publishing the poetry of William Blake; his dealings with Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson; his lifelong friendship with Henry James, Sr; his association with Daniel Dunglas Home, Thomas Lake Harris, and Andrew Jackson Davis; his homeopathic practice and its influence on James Tyler Kent; and his engagement with such causes as utopian socialism, environmentalism, women&;s suffrage, antivivisectionism, and the deregulation of medicine. Th concludes with a broader study of Wilkinson&;s interest in mythology, psychology, and Christian spiritualism.

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