Raising spirits : how a Conjuror's Tale was transmitted across the Enlightenment /
Despite Enlightenment scepticism about the supernatural, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death)...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave,
2013.
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| Series: | Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Thomas Perks and his Circle
- Arthur Bedford and his Circle
- The Second Phase: Bristol and London 1760-79
- Evangelical Publishing
- Astrologers
- The Nineteenth Century: Medicine, Spiritualism and Christianity.