Author: Cottom, Daniel
Title: Abyss of Reason: Cultural Movements, Revelations and Betrayals
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991. orig.boards. 24x15cm, (4), 305 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Study of the relationship etween 19th-century spiritualism & 20th-century surrealism. Contents: On the Dignity of Tables; The Experience of Personification; The Medium of Reason; Wording the Subject of Spiritualism;The Pathology of Beauty; Dream Work; Thinking Things; Purity.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Surrealism, Surrealist, Avant-garde, Movements, Literature, Spiritualism, Social History,