Acknowledgments

1. Magic History: An Introduction

2. Enchantment and Loss: Theorizing Secular Magic

3. Egg-Bag Tricks and Electricity: The Founding of Modern Commercial Conjuring

4. Magic's Moment: The Illusion Business

5. From Magic to Film

6. Magic and Literature

7. Magic Places: The Lyceum and the Great Room, Spring Gardens

8. Spiritualism and the Birth of Optical Technologies

Notes

Index

Simon During is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University.

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