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By Karl Bell

ISBN-10: 1107002001

ISBN-13: 9781107002005

This cutting edge heritage of renowned magical mentalities in nineteenth-century England explores the dynamic ways that the mystical mind's eye helped humans to regulate to city existence. prior experiences of contemporary well known magical practices and supernatural ideals have principally missed the city adventure. Karl Bell, even if, exhibits that the paranormal mind's eye was once a key cultural source which granted an empowering experience of plebeian service provider within the nineteenth-century city surroundings. instead of portraying magical ideals and practices as an insignificant enclave of anachronistic 'tradition' and the fantastical as easily an escapist shelter from the true, he unearths magic's adaptive and transformative traits and the ways that it helped traditional humans navigate, adapt to and withstand elements of contemporary urbanization. Drawing on views from cultural anthropology, sociology, folklore and concrete experiences, this can be a significant contribution to our figuring out of recent well known magic and the lived adventure of modernization and urbanization.

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