Magical Imagination - Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780-1914

Informationen zum Autor Karl Bell is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Portsmouth. He is a cultural and social historian who specialises in the history of Britain from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Klappentext Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Karl Bell, Karl (University of Portsmouth) Bell, Bell Karl
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2012
• EAN: 9781107002005
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00200-5
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Esoterics: general, reference works; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Social & cultural history, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General