Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century
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 contemporary culture.
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Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century
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 contemporary culture.
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Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century

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

by Marina Warner
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century

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

by Marina Warner

Overview

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 contemporary culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199239238
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/30/2008
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Marina Warner is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex, an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at St. Andrew's University, Scotland. An acclaimed novelist and mythographer, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.

Table of Contents

PrologueIntroduction: The Logic of the ImaginaryI. Wax1. Living Likenesses, Death Masks2. Anatomies and Heroes: Madame Tussaud's3. On the Threshold: Sleeping BeautiesII. Air4. The Breath of Life5. Winged Spirits and Sweet AirsIII. Clouds6. Clouds of Glory7. Fata Morgana8 Very Like a Whale . . .IV. Light9. The Eye of the Imagination10. Fancy's Images; Insubstantial PageantsV. Shadow11. Phantasmagoria or, Darkness Visible12. The Origin of Painting or, the Corinthian MaidVI. Mirror13. The Danger in the Mirror: Narcissus14. Double Vision15. The Camera Steals the SoulVII. Ghost16. 'Stay This Moment': Julia Margaret Cameron and Charles Dodgson17. Spectral Rappers, Psychic Photographers18. Phantoms to the Test: The Society for Psychical ResearchVIII. Ether19. Soul Vibrations or, The Fluidic Invisible20. Time Travel and Other Selves21. Exotic Visitors, Multiple Lives22. Touching the UnknownIX. Ectoplasm23. Materializing Mediums: The Quest for Ectoplasm24. The Rorschach Test, or Dirty PicturesX. Film25. Nice Life, an Extra's26. Disembodied Eyes: The Culture of Apocalypse27. Our Zombies, Our SelvesConclusion
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