Table of Contents

Prologue
Introduction: The Logic of the Imaginary
I. Wax
1: Living Likenesses, Death Masks
2: Anatomies and Heroes: Madame Tussaud's
3: On the Threshold: Sleeping Beauties
II. Air
4: The Breath of Life
5: Winged Spirits and Sweet Airs
III. Clouds
6: Clouds of Glory
7: Fata Morgana
8: Very Like a Whale . . .
IV. Light
9: The Eye of the Imagination
10: Fancy's Images; Insubstantial Pageants
V. Shadow
11: Phantasmagoria or, Darkness Visible
12: The Origin of Painting or, the Corinthian Maid
VI. Mirror
13: The Danger in the Mirror: Narcissus
14: Double Vision
15: The Camera Steals the Soul
VII. Ghost
16: 'Stay This Moment': Julia Margaret Cameron and Charles Dodgson
17: Spectral Rappers, Psychic Photographers
18: Phantoms to the Test: The Society for Psychical Research
VIII. Ether
19: Soul Vibrations or, The Fluidic Invisible
20: Time Travel and Other Selves
21: Exotic Visitors, Multiple Lives
22: Touching the Unknown
IX. Ectoplasm
23: Materializing Mediums: The Quest for Ectoplasm
24: The Rorschach Test, or Dirty Pictures
X. Film
25: Nice Life, an Extra's
26: Disembodied Eyes: The Culture of Apocalypse
27: Our Zombies, Our Selves
Conclusion

About the Author

Marina Warner has written extensively on mythology and fairy tales. Her novels and works of criticism have won her the Fawcett Prize, a Booker Prize nomination, the Rosemary Crawshay Prize, and a Commonwealth Writer's Prize. Internationally she has been created Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French, Commendatore by the Italians, and was awarded the Warburg Prize in Germany. In addition to being Professor of Literature at the University of
Essex, she is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at St Andrews University. In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Reviews

`Rigorous research, dazzling cross-disciplinary leaps ... her passion seeps right through to the last page.'
Observer Review.
`The sprawl of Warner's thesis is slightly overwhelming but her passion seeps right through to the last page.'
Observer.
`Review from previous edition ...often manages splendidly vivid pictorial evocations ... a bold, imaginative and provocative study, with a range few other writers would dare.'
Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement
`The general effect is rather like that of reading through a first-class encyclopedia.'
Nigel Barley, Times Higher Education Supplement
`Frighteningly literate and well-informed'
Roz Kaveney, Time Out
`Marina Warner is particularly well-equipped to conduct this investigation'
Steven Connor, The Independent
`She is exquisitely alive not just to ideas and arguments, but also to the jag and whiff and tang of things'
Steven Connor, The Independent
`Phantasmagoria is a cabinet of familiar wonders: a jetting, generous, humane spree of thought, richly quickened by the life it finds within us and adroad, in our media and machineries of mind.'
Steven Connor, The Independent
`As always Warner's scholarship, eclecticism and inventiveness dazzle.'
Bel Mooney, The Times
`It is a book of wonders.'
Hilary Mantel,The Guardian
`Phantasmagoria is a fascinating history of spirited bodies and haunted machines, but a reminder too of why the metaphors still get under our skin'
Brian Dillon, Daily Telegraph
`This book's enquiries are wide-ranging, pertinent and up-to- date. All Marina Warner's material is freshly and enticingly presented.'
The Guardian, Hilary Mantel
`This book is a powerful statement.'
Hilary Mantel,The Guardian
`Marina Warner is particularly well-equipped to conduct this investigation.'
Stephen Connor, The Independent
`A densely layered book'
Mike Dash, Sunday Telegraph
`She is exquisitely alive not just to ideas and arguments, but also to the jag and whiff and tang of things.'
Stephen Connor, The Independent
`Phantasmagoria is a cabinet of familiar wonders: a jetting, generous, humane spree of thought, richly quickened by the life it finds within us and abroad, in our media and machineries of mind.'
Stephen Connor, The Independent