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Satanism, Magic and Mysticism in Fin-de-siècle France 2012th Edition
Author(s): R. Ziegler (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 7 Jun. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 235 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230293085
- ISBN-13: 9780230293083
Book Description
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.
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Review
‘…a trove of enticing parts.’ – Scott D. Carpenter, Carleton College, French Studies
About the Author
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).
