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The Magical Imagination
This innovative history of popular magical mentalities in nineteenth-
century England explores the dynamic ways in which the magical
imagination helped people to adjust to urban life. Previous studies
of modern popular magical practices and supernatural beliefs have
largely neglected the urban experience. Karl Bell, however, shows that
the magical imagination was a key cultural resource which granted
an empowering sense of plebeian agency in the nineteenth-century
urban environment. Rather than portraying magical beliefs and prac-
tices as a mere enclave of anachronistic tradition and the fantas-
tical as simply an escapist refuge from the real, he reveals magics
adaptive and transformative qualities and the ways in which it helped
ordinary people navigate, adapt to, and resist aspects of modern
urbanisation. Drawing on perspectives from cultural anthropology,
sociology, folklore, and urban studies, this is a major contribution to
our understanding of modern popular magic and the lived experience
of modernisation and urbanisation.
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 to the early twentieth
century.
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The Magical Imagination
Magic and Modernity in Urban
England 1780–1914
Karl Bell
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First published 2012
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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Bell, Karl, 1971–
The magical imagination : magic and modernity in urban
England 1780–1914 / Karl Bell.
pages
cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-107-00200-5 (hardback)
1. Magic–England–History.
2. City and town life–England–
History. I. Title.
BF1622.E5B45 2012
133.4′30942091732–dc23
2011048654
ISBN 978-1-107-00200-5 Hardback
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