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Preface | ||
Introduction: Swedenborg, French Culture, and the Dream of an Absolute Language | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | Politics, Magic, and Language: Swedenborgianism in the Works of Alphonse-Louis Constant, a.k.a. Eliphas Levi | 19 |
Two Names, One Career: From Alphonse-Louis Constant to Eliphas Levi | 21 | |
Constant/Levi's "Les correspondances" | 24 | |
Echoes of "Les correspondances" in Constant/Levi's prose | 27 | |
Magic, Politics, and Duplicity: Constant/Levi's Dogme et rituel de la haute magie | 31 | |
Language, Mesmerism, and Charisma: The Preface to the 1861 Edition of Dogme et rituel de la haute magie and Histoire de la magie | 37 | |
Ch. 2 | Swedenborg's Correspondences and the Cultures of the Enlightenment | 55 |
The Worlds of Emanuel Swedenborg | 58 | |
Swedenborg's Interpretation of Dreams: The Journal of 1743-44 | 68 | |
The Word "Represent" in the Journal of 1743-44 | 91 | |
Heaven and Hell: Utopian Spheres and the Pleasures of Reading | 93 | |
Ch. 3 | Who Has the Word? Swedenborgianism and Popular Culture in France, 1780-1865 | 107 |
Swedenborgian Performances: Alphonse Cahagnet's Seances | 109 | |
Combien en durera cette societe? J.-F.-E. Le Boys des Guays and the French Swedenborgians | 112 | |
Language, Rituals, and Utopias: Eighteenth-Century Interpretations of Swedenborgianism in France | 116 | |
Hunger and Hallucinations: The Emigre Perspective | 121 | |
Eclecticism and Flanerie: The Interpretations of Edouard Richer and Guillaume Oegger | 123 | |
Beyond the Myth? Mid-Nineteenth-Century Accounts | 135 | |
Swedenborgianism and Popular Culture | 141 | |
Ch. 4 | The Underside of History: Swedenborgianism and La comedie humaine | 147 |
Swedenborgianism and Representation in La comedie humaine | 148 | |
Balzac's "Swedenborgianism" and Its Contexts | 152 | |
Desire and Tradition: The Other Worlds of Les etudes philosophiques | 156 | |
Through a Glass Darkly: Swedenborgianism in Les etudes de moeurs | 194 | |
Ch. 5 | Baudelaire's Correspondence: Language, Censorship, and Mourning | 217 |
A Volume of Swedenborg under his arm: Baudelaire and Swedenborgianism | 220 | |
Fictional Polarities and the Aesthete's Dilemma: Baudelaire's References to Swedenborg | 223 | |
Towards a Universal Language of Art? Baudelaire's Correspondances | 239 | |
Conclusion | 249 | |
Appendix: Baudelaire's "Correspondances" and Constant/Levi's "Les correspondances" | 257 | |
Notes | 261 | |
Works Cited | 301 | |
Index | 321 |
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