| 000 | 01791nam a2200217Ia 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 003 | BD-DhNLB | ||
| 005 | 20230122114131.0 | ||
| 008 | 111129s2012 enk b 001 0 eng | ||
| 020 | _a9781107002005 (hardback) | ||
| 040 | _aDLC | ||
| 041 | _heng | ||
| 082 |
_a133.4/30942091732 _bKAM 2012 |
||
| 100 |
_aBell, Karl, _924061 |
||
| 245 | 4 |
_aThe magical imagination : _bmagic and modernity in urban England, 1780-1914 / _cKarl Bell. |
|
| 260 |
_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012 |
||
| 300 |
_avii, 300 pages _c24 cm |
||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and index. | ||
| 520 | _a"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"-- | ||
| 650 |
_aMagic;City and town life;HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. _xHistory.;History. _924062 |
||
| 942 |
_2ddc _cBK |
||
| 999 |
_c23956 _d23956 |
||