Modernism and the Occult

This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge.

Author: John Bramble
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/04/2015
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781137465771

About the Author

John Bramble, an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College Oxford, lectured in Classics at Oxford University, UK. His publications as a classicist include Persius and the Programmatic Satire (1974, reissued 2010), and contributions to The Cambridge History of Classical Literature Vol. 2 (1983). As a historian of mystical syncretism and religio-cultural mixing, he has contributed to The Subtle Body in Asia and the West (2013).