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The Magical Imagination : Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914.
Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.