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  title info:
    title: Literary illusions
    sub title: performance magic and Victorian literature
  title info:
    title: Performance magic and Victorian literature
  name:
    name part: Pittard, Christopher
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Literary Illusions explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century's most popular modes of performance: conjuring. It explores the ways in which Victorian literature frequently deployed the figure of the magician to explore performance magic as a metaphor for writing itself, and the ways in which conjurors themselves were authors (of highly fictionalised biographies), while authors explored the narrative opportunities offered by magic (most notably Charles Dickens). The book theorises magic as a manifestation of Victorian concerns with authorship and the intellectual property debate, with the magician often deployed as a privileged - and occasionally parodied - figure in debates on textuality. Literary Illusions offers a reconceptualisation of the relationship between popular culture and literature in the nineteenth century, bringing canonical figures such as Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell into dialogue with lesser known Victorian bestsellers such as Henry Cockton and Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin, and innovatively blends performance history with literary criticism."--
  table of contents: Introduction : taking magic seriously -- V for ventriloquism : vocal magic in Henry Cockton's Valentine Vox -- A cabinet of curiosities : Dickens, magic and secrecy -- The travelling doll wonder : from Khia Khan Khruse to Bleak house -- Unprecedented arts : conjuring in Cranford -- Bullet catches and second sight : conjuror biography and Robert-Houdin's Memoirs -- Conclusion : Edwardian and neo-Victorian conjuring -- Appendix : Khia Khan Khruse's UK performances.
  note: Christopher Pittard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-253) and index.
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Magic in literature
  subject:
    topic: Littérature anglaise
    temporal: 19e siècle
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Magie dans la littérature
  classification: PR468.M34 P58 2025
  classification: PR871 .P58 2025
  classification: 823.809
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Literary Illusions
    name:
      name part: Pittard, Christopher.
    origin info:
      publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1470861509
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures
  identifier: 9781474460330
  identifier: 147446033X
  identifier: 9781474460354
  identifier: 9781474460361
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240712
    record change date: 20250802185450.5
    record identifier: in00005655337
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng