CONTENTS
Introduction = 1
PART Ⅰ. PHANTASMAGORIA
1 Inventor of Pepper's Ghost / Henry Dircks = 23
Carlyle and the Impossibility of Reenchantment = 23
Spiritualism and the Dircksian Phantasmagoria = 27
The Ghost on Stage and the Disappearance of Henry Dircks = 37
Pepper's Ghost, and Shakespeare's = 41
2 Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire / Homo Alludens = 54
From Magic to Marx = 54
Smells Like World Spirit : Allusion, Revision, Farce = 57
Ghost in The German Ideology and The Eighteenth Brumaire = 71
Translations of the Mole = 79
Ghosts and Contradiction = 89
3 The Ghost of Hamlet in the Mine = 93
Mining Terms in Hamlet = 98
Replication = 106
"Shakspearized" or, Back to the Brumaire = 116
PART Ⅱ. WITCHCRAFT AND HISTORY
4 John Maynard Keynes and Reenchantment = 125
Productivity, Productivity, Productivity = 125
Quotation and Haunted Spheres of Influence = 132
Keynes's Macbeth = 141
The Fantasy of Deferred History = 150
5 Macbeth Scare Quotes, and Supernatural History = 157
James and the "Horrid Sphere" of Witchcraft = 157
Seeds, Second Nature Camouflage = 162
The Last Scare Quote = 173
Conclusion = 181
Ends of the Scare Quote = 181
Last Words on Witchcraft = 183
Works Cited = 191
Index = 205
