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The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914
Bell, Karl (University of Portsmouth)
The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914
Bell, Karl (University of Portsmouth)
This innovative history of popular magical mentalities in nineteenth-century England reveals how the magical imagination helped people adjust to urban life. Using perspectives from cultural anthropology, sociology, folklore and urban studies, this is a major contribution to our understanding of popular magic and the lived experience of modernization and urbanization.
308 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 26, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781107002005 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Dimensions | 162 × 234 × 19 mm · 616 g |
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