Opening book details…
Can I read Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) on EtoBox?
Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) by Peter Melville Logan is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) about?
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 defi
Who reads Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Melville Logan
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780791477281
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Education
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
More by Peter Melville Logan
Browse all works by Peter Melville Logan
Similar books
- Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 57) — Gowan Dawson (2007)
- Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) — Tromp, Marlene, 1966- (2006)
- Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century — Thomas Vranken Suzy Anger (2024)
- Victorian Structures: Architecture, Society, and Narrative (SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century) — Jody Griffith (2020)
- Mapping The Victorian Social Body (suny Series, Studies In The Long Nineteenth Century) — Pamela K. Gilbert (2004)
- Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics (Series in Victorian Studies) — Edited by Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp (2016)
