The Magical Imagination : Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914.
Bell, Karl.
The Magical Imagination : Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (310 pages) - Cambridge books online. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; The Magical Imagination; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the magical imagination; The magical imagination as agency; Historiographical context: the decline and rise of modern magic; Conceptual context: modernity and modern urbanisation; Structure; 1: Constructing the magical imagination; Historical context; Manchester; Norwich; Portsmouth; The urban environment; Popular religion and religious supernaturalism; Oral 'folklore' and popular superstition; Magical practices and urban practitioners; Conclusion; 2: Transformation of the magical imagination. The modernisation of magical mentalitiesThe commercialisation of magical beliefs; Magic shows; Cheap literature; The democratisation of magic; Conclusion; 3: Magic, modernity, and the middle classes; Constructing the modern 'self' and 'otherness'; Disseminating 'modernity'; Education; Newspapers; Folklorists; The bourgeois magical imagination; Conclusion; 4: Urban orientation: the gendering of magical mentalities; Gendering practitioners and clients; Gendered access to magical resources?; Ideological imposition; Magic and feminine agency; Generational dimensions; Conclusion. 5: Urban communal formation and protestCommunal formation and boundaries; Communal protest and adaptation; Conclusion; 6: Magical memory mapping; Rereading the city: space; Rereading the city: time; Altered and alternative geographies; Conclusion; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.
Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.
English.
9781139232036 1139232037 9780511740107 (ebook) 0511740107 (ebook) 9781107002005 (hardback) 1107002001 (hardback) 9781139233576 (electronic bk.) 1139233572 (electronic bk.) 1107226694 9781107226692 1139234285 9781139234283 1280393750 9781280393754 9786613571670 6613571679 1139232797 9781139232791 1139230573 9781139230575 1139229125 9781139229128
9786613571670
357167 MIL
Magic--History.--England
City and town life--History.--England
Vie urbaine--Histoire.--Angleterre
HISTORY--Great Britain.--Europe
City and town life.
Magic.
England.
Electronic books.
History.
BF1622.E5 B45 2012
133.4/30942091732 133.430942091732 307.76094209034
The Magical Imagination : Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (310 pages) - Cambridge books online. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; The Magical Imagination; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the magical imagination; The magical imagination as agency; Historiographical context: the decline and rise of modern magic; Conceptual context: modernity and modern urbanisation; Structure; 1: Constructing the magical imagination; Historical context; Manchester; Norwich; Portsmouth; The urban environment; Popular religion and religious supernaturalism; Oral 'folklore' and popular superstition; Magical practices and urban practitioners; Conclusion; 2: Transformation of the magical imagination. The modernisation of magical mentalitiesThe commercialisation of magical beliefs; Magic shows; Cheap literature; The democratisation of magic; Conclusion; 3: Magic, modernity, and the middle classes; Constructing the modern 'self' and 'otherness'; Disseminating 'modernity'; Education; Newspapers; Folklorists; The bourgeois magical imagination; Conclusion; 4: Urban orientation: the gendering of magical mentalities; Gendering practitioners and clients; Gendered access to magical resources?; Ideological imposition; Magic and feminine agency; Generational dimensions; Conclusion. 5: Urban communal formation and protestCommunal formation and boundaries; Communal protest and adaptation; Conclusion; 6: Magical memory mapping; Rereading the city: space; Rereading the city: time; Altered and alternative geographies; Conclusion; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.
Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.
English.
9781139232036 1139232037 9780511740107 (ebook) 0511740107 (ebook) 9781107002005 (hardback) 1107002001 (hardback) 9781139233576 (electronic bk.) 1139233572 (electronic bk.) 1107226694 9781107226692 1139234285 9781139234283 1280393750 9781280393754 9786613571670 6613571679 1139232797 9781139232791 1139230573 9781139230575 1139229125 9781139229128
9786613571670
357167 MIL
Magic--History.--England
City and town life--History.--England
Vie urbaine--Histoire.--Angleterre
HISTORY--Great Britain.--Europe
City and town life.
Magic.
England.
Electronic books.
History.
BF1622.E5 B45 2012
133.4/30942091732 133.430942091732 307.76094209034