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

by Marina Warner

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199239231
• ISBN13: 9780199239238
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"