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Departing from established structuralist or psychological approaches to the fantastic, Jos Monlecn offers an ideological reading of this literary product of mass culture. In an exploration of the origins and development of the fantastic, Monlecn traces the relation of reason to unreason in light of three distinct events that influenced capitalist t



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"Monleon has clearly demonstrated that even the relatively rigid definitions of fantastic ... are open to wide variation in their application to works if literature."--Canadian Review of Comparative Literature

Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*PREFACE, pg. vii*ONE. Introduction, pg. 1*TWO. 1789: The Dream of Reason, pg. 21*THREE. 1848: The Assault on Reason, pg. 49*FOUR. 1917: The Eclipse of Reason, pg. 81*FIVE. Shadows, pg. 104*SIX. Epilogue: Saturn Devouring His Children, pg. 136*Notes, pg. 141*Bibliography, pg. 157*Index, pg. 171

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691607863, 978-0691607863
      ISBN10: 0691607869
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Departing from established structuralist or psychological approaches to the fantastic, Jos Monlecn offers an ideological reading of this literary product of mass culture. In an exploration of the origins and development of the fantastic, Monlecn traces the relation of reason to unreason in light of three distinct events that influenced capitalist t



      Trade Review
      "Monleon has clearly demonstrated that even the relatively rigid definitions of fantastic ... are open to wide variation in their application to works if literature."--Canadian Review of Comparative Literature

      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*PREFACE, pg. vii*ONE. Introduction, pg. 1*TWO. 1789: The Dream of Reason, pg. 21*THREE. 1848: The Assault on Reason, pg. 49*FOUR. 1917: The Eclipse of Reason, pg. 81*FIVE. Shadows, pg. 104*SIX. Epilogue: Saturn Devouring His Children, pg. 136*Notes, pg. 141*Bibliography, pg. 157*Index, pg. 171

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