The Chain of Things

Eric Downing

earliest edition we have, 2018 Cornell University Press, 2018 paperback 366 pages

"Shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers, including writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Walter Benjamin"--

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Chain of Things edition · 2018 · Cornell University Press · 366 pages · 9781501715907
The Chain of Things edition · 2018 · Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library · 272 pages · 9781501715921
The Chain of Things paperback · 2018 · Cornell University Press · 366 pages · 9781501715914
Chain of Things edition · 2018 · Cornell University Press · 366 pages · 9781501715938

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