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Edinburgh University Press Literary Illusions: Performance Magic and Victorian Literature (Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures)

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Literary Illusions explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century’s most popular modes of performance: conjuring. It explores the ways in which Victorian literature frequently deployed the figure of the magician to explore performance magic as a metaphor for writing itself, and the ways in which conjurors themselves were authors (of highly fictionalised biographies), while authors explored the narrative opportunities offered by magic (most notably Charles Dickens). The book theorises magic as a manifestation of Victorian concerns with authorship and the intellectual property debate, with the magician often deployed as a privileged – and occasionally parodied – figure in debates on textuality. Literary Illusions offers a reconceptualisation of the relationship between popular culture and literature in the nineteenth century, bringing canonical figures such as Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell into dialogue with lesser known Victorian bestsellers such as Henry Cockton and Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin, and innovatively blends performance history with literary criticism.

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Brand: Edinburgh University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 147446033X
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Magic
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 January 2025
Listed Since: 02 July 2024

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