LURE OF THE ARCANE |
Book Category:
Literary Collections > General
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Author:
Ziolkowski, Theodore
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9781421409580
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Price:
USD 39.95
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Publication Year:
2013
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Publisher Info
Brendan Coyne,
Johns Hopkins University Press,2715 N. Charles St,
Baltimore ,
Massachusetts - 21218,USA
Web: www.press.jhu.edu Inquiry
Book Description
Theodore Ziolkowski's exploration of "literature of cult and conspiracy" involves a long and pleasantly vertiginous journey from classical antiquity to the present, covering secret groups from ancient times, the Knights Templar, the Rosicrucians of the post-Reformation, lodges of the Enlightenment period, "secret societies of Romantic Socialism," and modern and postmodern examples, with an "interlude" on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903). The juxtapositions in the study are impressive in a number of ways because Ziolkowski starts from the beginning, as it were, and mixes the esoteric and cultured with the popular
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