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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'...a trove of enticing parts.' - Scott D. Carpenter, Carleton College, French Studies

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University of Montana, USA

Robert Ziegler

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).

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Book Title: Satanism, Magic and Mysticism in Fin-de-siècle France
Authors: Robert Ziegler
Series Title: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006615
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29308-3Published: 07 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33273-1Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00661-5Published: 07 June 2012
Series ISSN: 2731-5630
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 229
Topics: History of France, European History, Modern History, History of Religion, History of Philosophy, Literary History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

The Satanist

The Hoaxer

The Magus

The Mystic

The Miracle-Worker

Conclusion

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