R. Ziegler

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Satanism, Magic and Mysticism in Fin-de-siècle France

Beschreibung

An interdisciplinary study of the supernatural and the occult in fin-de-siècle France (1870-1914), the present volume examines the explosion of interest in devil-worship, magic and mysticism both from an historical perspective and through analysis of key literary works of the period.

Autor

ROBERT ZIEGLER is professor of Liberal Studies at Montana Tech, USA. He has published widely on turn-of-the century French literature and French Decadence, and is the author of four books on the fin de siècle: Beauty Raises the Dead (2001), selected as a Choice outstanding academic book, The Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation in J.-K. Huysmans (2004), The Nothing Machine: The Fiction of Octave Mirbeau (2007), and Asymptote: An Approach to Decadent Fiction (2009).

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-33273-1
• 1st ed. 2012
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 303g
• ISBN-13: 9781349332731
• ISBN-10: 1349332739
• Artikelnr.: 45075668

Rezensionen

'...a trove of enticing parts.' - Scott D. Carpenter, Carleton College, French Studies