Isbn: 9780791476628 - victorian fetishism: intellectuals and primitives (suny series, studies in the long nineteenth century) (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all primitive cultures with Primitive Fetishism, a psychological form of self-projection in which people believe everything in the external world--thunderstorms, trees, stones--is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby fetishizing fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 206 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.