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The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 af , 9780367885069
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
278
ISBN-13:
9780367885069
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367885069
Udg. Dato:
12 dec 2019
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 22,7 x 2,0
Oplagsdato:
12 dec 2019

The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947

Engelsk
Paperback 2019
Format:

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Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an unparalleled efflorescence of engagement with unusual occult schema and supernatural phenomena such as astral travel, ritual magic, and reincarnationism. Reflecting the signal array of responses by authors, artists, actors, impresarios and popular entertainers to questions of esoteric spirituality and belief, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the enormous interest in the occult during a time typically associated with the rise of secularization and scientific innovation. The contributors describe how the occult realm functions as a turbulent conceptual and affective space, shifting between poles of faith and doubt, the sacrosanct and the profane, the endemic and the exotic, the forensic and the fetishistic. Here, occultism emerges as a practice and epistemology that decisively shapes the literary enterprises of writers such as Dion Fortune and Arthur Machen, artists such as Pamela Colman Smith, and revivalists such as Rolf Gardiner

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
278
ISBN-13:
9780367885069
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367885069
Udg. Dato:
12 dec 2019
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 22,7 x 2,0
Oplagsdato:
12 dec 2019
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