LEADER 03346oam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910778456903321 005 20231023203203.0 010 $a0-674-03439-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674034396 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805516 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050674 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000204318 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12075027 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204318 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10189102 035 $a(PQKB)10947741 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300571 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300571 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10326116 035 $a(OCoLC)923112059 035 $a(DE-B1597)574387 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674034396 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7186183 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805516 100 $a20011231d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModern enchantments $ethe cultural power of secular magic /$fSimon During 210 1$aCambridge, Mass. :$cHarvard University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 336 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aOriginally published: 2002. 311 0 $a0-674-00607-0 311 0 $a0-674-01371-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-326) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments 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 330 $bMagic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself. 606 $aMagic tricks$xHistory 606 $aMagicians$xHistory 615 0$aMagic tricks$xHistory. 615 0$aMagicians$xHistory. 676 $a793.8 700 $aDuring$b Simon$f1950-$0251364 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778456903321 996 $aModern enchantments$93746515 997 $aUNINA