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(4.6) | None | Immensely popular in nineteenth-century France, this substantial book went through five editions between 1818 and 1863. It is an A-Z encyclopedia of the occult sciences, listing notable practitioners and books, superstitions, demons, spirits and other phenomena associated with magic, divination, sooth-saying and the supernatural. Its author, the prolific Collin de Plancy (1794-1881), moved to Paris in 1812. He owned a bookshop and speculated in property, a venture which resulted in his exile to Brussels. In 1837, he returned to Paris, rejected his earlier anticlericalism, and converted to Catholicism. The preface to the 1845 edition of his Dictionnaire Infernal, reissued here, claims its purpose is to refute error, banish superstition, and explain literary symbols and imagery.Significantly, the preface and the book's concluding paragraph affirm the Church's role as a source of truth, and the book carries the approval of the archbishop of Paris.… (more) |
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▾Book descriptions Immensely popular in nineteenth-century France, this substantial book went through five editions between 1818 and 1863. It is an A-Z encyclopedia of the occult sciences, listing notable practitioners and books, superstitions, demons, spirits and other phenomena associated with magic, divination, sooth-saying and the supernatural. Its author, the prolific Collin de Plancy (1794-1881), moved to Paris in 1812. He owned a bookshop and speculated in property, a venture which resulted in his exile to Brussels. In 1837, he returned to Paris, rejected his earlier anticlericalism, and converted to Catholicism. The preface to the 1845 edition of his Dictionnaire Infernal, reissued here, claims its purpose is to refute error, banish superstition, and explain literary symbols and imagery.Significantly, the preface and the book's concluding paragraph affirm the Church's role as a source of truth, and the book carries the approval of the archbishop of Paris. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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English language translation of the 1863 edition of Dictionnaire Infernal by J. Collin de Plancy. Includes digitally-enhanced reproductions of Louis Le Breton's original woodprint artwork, full-color illustrations by modern artists, an index and ribbon bookmarks. Published as a two-volume box set, with imitation leather binding in black with silver foil-stamping.  Collin de Plancy's predilection for the irrational, the harrowing, and the pathetic gives him a singular place in the genesis of one element of Romanticism. Published in the 19th century, this dictionary became somewhat of a standard reference book for countless Romantic writers (notably, Victor Hugo) who dwelt in their work on the darker sides of human nature. It is a compendium of fact and fancy, with the emphasis on legend. Much of the material contained in the dictionary was the source of the peculiar literary genre known as "Gothic tale," a style of narrative that is by no means lacking in popularity today. The first English translation of J. Collin de Plancy's Infernal Dictionary (6th edition, 1863). This enhanced translation of de Plancy's encyclopedia of occult, superstition and theology includes digitally enhanced reproductions of de Plancy's original 19th century woodcuts, brand new artwork including dozens of full-color portraits re-imagining several infernal beings, additional annotations and an English-French index of articles. | |
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