“Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was the question of why it had attracted such a following in the 18th Century. It's less mysterious that it attracted a following in the Romantic period, and in the 19th Century, but the early 18th Century when the Rationalists fell in love with it...that was mysterious. What I wanted to look at was the forms of enchantment.” MindLooksBookStoriesWantedFormCenturyPeriodsFollowingMysterious19th CenturyEnchantment18th Century Author:Marina Warner
“I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very important, was the emergence of paper money. There had been permissionary notes, exchanging money by writing it, but there was no duplicated form of guaranteeing an exchange.” ThinkingWritingImportantFormTakenPaperNotesGrantedCommodityEmergenceTaken For GrantedExchangingConvergencePaper Money Author:Marina Warner
“One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my own books so that the chapter titles and the epigraphs and pictures all kind of form a tapestry. In this book, I retell fifteen of the stories. You have the critical frame, and then you have these rosettes like the motif in a carpet.” TryingKindBookMatterStoriesFormMy OwnSubjectsCriticalAll KindsTitlesChaptersFifteenRhymeRepetitionCarpetSubject MatterTapestryMirroringMotifsEpigraphs Author:Marina Warner
“The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.” FormSolutionsFemaleEssenceMalesFemale Form Book:Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form Source: Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
“Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.” RomanceFormSufferingTalesGreekEroticSurviving Book:L'Atalante Source: L'Atalante
