Karl Bell

The Magical Imagination

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781107002005
• ISBN-10: 1107002001
• Artikelnr.: 34540688

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.