The Chain of Things
by Eric Downing
"Shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers, including writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Walter Benjamin"--
German literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryGerman literature, history and criticism, 20th centuryBooks and readingAesthetics, germanGerman literatureHistory and criticismHistoryDivination in literatureMagic in literatureGerman Aesthetics