Phantasmagoria

Marina Warner

RRP: £18.99

Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Publication Date : 12/10/2006

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Warner's wise and eclectic new work explores the wider shores of fantasy bringing vital new insights to the relationship between the supernatural and our ideas about individuals and society.

Publisher's description:

Explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; traces metaphors that have conveyed the presence of immaterial forces; and reveals how such pagan and Christian imagery about ethereal beings are embedded in a logic of the imagination, clothing spirits in the languages of air, clouds, light and shadow, glass, and ether itself.

ISBN: 9780199299942