Phantasmagoria Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-First Century

Name: Phantasmagoria Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780199239238

ISBN-10: 0199239231

ISBN-13: 9780199239238

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marina Warner

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With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception, and uncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Abbreviations


Prologue


Introduction: The Logic of the Imaginary



Wax



Living Likenesses; Death Masks



Anatomies and Heroes: Madame Tussaud's



On the Threshold: Sleeping Beauties



Air



The Breath of Life



Winged Spirits and Sweet Airs



Clouds



Clouds of Glory



Fata Morgana; or, Castles in the Air



'Very Like a Whale'



Light



The Eye of the Imagination



Fancy's Images; Insubstantial Pageants



Shadow



Darkness Visible: The Phantasmagoria



The Origin of Painting; or, The Corinthian Maid



Mirror



The Danger in the Mirror



Double Vision



The Camera Steals the Soul



Ghost



'Stay This Moment': Julia Margaret Cameron and Charles Dodgson



Spectral Rappers, Psychic Photographers



Phantoms to the Test: The Society for Psychical Research



Ether



Soul Vibrations; or, The Fluidic Invisible



Time Travel and Other Selves



Exotic Visitors, Multiple Lives



Ectoplasm



Touching the Unknown



Materializing Mediums



The Rorschach Test; or, Dirty Pictures



Film



Nice Life, an Extra's



Disembodied Eyes: The Culture of Apocalypse



Our Zombies, Our Selves


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index