num_pages: 496
description: 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 storyabout 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, anduncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture.
language: English
title: Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century
titlecomplete: Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century
genres: History, Theory, Reference, Gothic, Cultural Studies, Fairy Tales, Folklore, Literary Criticism, Paranormal, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 141
publisher: Oxford University Press