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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barry, Jonathan, 1956- (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave, 2013.
Series:Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
Palgrave pivot.
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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.