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1 online resource (310 pages) |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge books online.
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| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Magic -- England -- History.
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Magic. |
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England. |
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History. |
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City and town life -- England -- History.
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City and town life. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bell, Karl. Magical Imagination : Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107002005 |
| ISBN |
9781139232036 |
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1139232037 |
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9780511740107 (ebook) |
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0511740107 (ebook) |
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9781107002005 (hardback) |
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1107002001 (hardback) |
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9781139233576 (electronic book) |
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1139233572 (electronic book) |
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9781139230575 |
| Standard No. |
9786613571670 |
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