The relationship between Edgar Allan Poe's interests in mesmerism and his idea of creation

本研究以19世纪美国作家、诗人埃德加·爱伦·坡为研究对象。通过对爱伦·坡的文学文本以及19世纪杂志和报纸上与迷魂主义文化话语相关的文章的分析，考察了坡对迷幻主义(动物磁性)的兴趣与他的创作思想之间的关系。因此，本研究揭示了坡对催眠的兴趣对他的文学创作产生了深刻的影响。除了他的几个直接提到催眠术的短篇小说外，这种伪科学在他的创作思想和一些作品中发挥了重要作用，比如从未提到催眠术的《亚瑟之家的倒塌》。另外，我的美国考察之旅。这给了我一个很好的机会，不仅可以阅读稀有资源，还可以找到新的研究思路，可以发展到下一个项目中。

This research focused on nineteenth century American writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe. It investigated the relationship between Poe's interests in mesmerism (animal magnetism) and his idea of creation, through close analysis of Poe's literary texts as well as nineteenth century magazines and newspaper articles related to the cultural discourse of mesmerism. As a result, this study revealed that Poe's interests in mesmerism deeply affected to his literary creation. Besides his several short stories which directly refer to mesmerism, this pseudoscience played an important role in his idea of creation and some works such as "The Fall of the House of Usher," which never mentioned mesmerism. In addition, my research trip to the US. provided me a great opportunity not only to read rare resources but also to find new research idea which can be developed into next project.