The magical imagination: magic and modernity in urban England, 1780-1914
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 experi...
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 300 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511740107 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511740107 |
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| contents | Introduction: the magical imagination -- 1. Constructing the magical imagination -- 2. Transformation of the magical imagination -- 3. Magic, modernity, and the middle classes -- 4. Urban orientation: the gendering of magical mentalities -- 5. Urban communal formation and protest -- 6. Magical memory mapping -- Conclusion |
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| spelling | Bell, Karl 1971- Verfasser (DE-588)1021103004 aut The magical imagination magic and modernity in urban England, 1780-1914 Karl Bell Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 300 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) Introduction: the magical imagination -- 1. Constructing the magical imagination -- 2. Transformation of the magical imagination -- 3. Magic, modernity, and the middle classes -- 4. Urban orientation: the gendering of magical mentalities -- 5. Urban communal formation and protest -- 6. Magical memory mapping -- Conclusion 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 Geschichte Magic / England / History City and town life / England / History Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 978-1-107-00200-5 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511740107 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
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| title_short | The magical imagination |
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