Modern Enchantments

The Cultural Power of Secular Magic

Simon During

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$37.00 • £32.95 • €33.95

ISBN 9780674013711

Publication Date: 03/01/2004

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352 pages

5-3/4 x 9 inches

13 halftones; 1 line illustration

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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

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