Modern occultism in late imperial russia
Auteur :
Mannherz, Julia
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9780875804620
Date de publication :
15 oct. 2012
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
907 g
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
A title that examines the ferocious public debates of the 1870s on higher dimensional mathematics and the workings of seance phenomena, discusses the world of cheap instruction manuals and popular occult journals, and looks at haunted houses, which brought together the rural settings and the urban masses that obsessed over them.