Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment

Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment - Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

2013

Hardback (19 Nov 2013)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.

Book information

ISBN: 9781137378934
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Pub date:
Edition: 2013
DEWEY: 133.909
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 146
Weight: 346g
Height: 222mm
Width: 149mm
Spine width: 16mm