Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (Annotated)

Edward Bellamy's Dr. Heidenhoff's Process is an early speculative romance that joins melodrama, moral philosophy, and proto–science fiction. Centered on suffering, guilt, and the tantalizing possibility of erasing painful memory, the novel imagines a medical procedure that can alter consciousness itself. Its lucid, earnest prose reflects late nineteenth-century fascination with psychology, mesmeri...