The Uses and Abuses of Illusion
For all his idiosyncrasies, Palmer was emblematic of this cultural turn to Fictionalism, the adoption of an “as if” orientation to secure enchantment...
Michael Saler is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (Oxford, 2012) and The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: 'Medieval Modernism' and the London Underground (Oxford, 1999).
For all his idiosyncrasies, Palmer was emblematic of this cultural turn to Fictionalism, the adoption of an “as if” orientation to secure enchantment...