The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780–1914 - Image 1

£72.00

Cambridge University Press The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780–1914

Name: The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 72.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Georgian & Regency Britain

Price History & Forecast

Last 4 days • 4 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 4 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £72 (4 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £72 - £72

Price levels: 1 different prices over 4 days

Description

This innovative history of popular magical mentalities in nineteenth-century England explores the dynamic ways in which the magical imagination helped people to adjust to urban life. Previous studies of modern popular magical practices and supernatural beliefs have largely neglected the urban experience. Karl Bell, however, shows that the magical imagination was a key cultural resource which granted an empowering sense of plebeian agency in the nineteenth-century urban environment. Rather than portraying magical beliefs and practices as a mere enclave of anachronistic 'tradition' and the fantastical as simply an escapist refuge from the real, he reveals magic's adaptive and transformative qualities and the ways in which it helped ordinary people navigate, adapt to and resist aspects of modern urbanization. Drawing on perspectives from cultural anthropology, sociology, folklore and urban studies, this is a major contribution to our understanding of modern popular magic and the lived experience of modernization and urbanization.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1107002001
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Great Britain > Georgian & Regency Britain
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 23 February 2012
Listed Since: 25 July 2011

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780–1914

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures

History and the Supernatural in Medieval England: 66 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 66)

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief (Past and Present Publications)

A Cultural History of Magic: Volumes 1-6 (The Cultural Histories Series)

Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism

Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe

Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader

The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain (Neale UCL Studies in British History)

Magi and Maggidim: The Kabbalah in British Occultism 1860-1940

Magic on the Early English Stage

Routledge - Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England

Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England

Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)

Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era

Palgrave Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe

The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)

Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)

Magic in Early Modern England: Literature, Politics, and Supernatural Power (Politics, Literature, & Film)

Science and Magic in the Modern World: Psychological Perspectives on Living with the Supernatural

The Victorian Supernatural: 42 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 42)

The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Routledge Studies in Modern British History)

Routledge - Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage

Angels in the Early Modern World