Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity

by Patrick Kindig

Most cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technological innovation and the kind of dispersed, fragmented attention that characterizes the experience of mass culture. Patrick Kindig's Fascination, however, tells a different story, showing that many fin-de-siècle Americans were in fact concerned about (and intrigued by) the modern world's ability to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807178519
• ISBN13: 9780807178515
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"