Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Enlightenment / edited by Michael R. Lynn.
| Other author | Lynn, Michael R. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in the history of witchcraft, demonology and magic |
| Contents | Introduction : magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Enlightenment / Michael R. Lynn -- The ghost of the Enlightenment : communication with the dead in southwestern Germany, 18th and 19th centuries / Johannes Dillinger -- Invisible worlds : magic, spirits, and experience in the early Enlightenment / Tricia Peone -- Priests in the storm : an approach on changes in ritual attitudes in eighteenth-century Hungary / D©Łniel B©Łrth -- Folk magic and folklore in Britain's age of reason / P©Łdraig Lawlor -- Jean-Baptiste Alliette and the Ecole de Magie in late-eighteenth century Paris / Michael R. Lynn -- Fortune telling, culture, law, and gender in Ireland, 1691-c1840 / Andrew Snedden -- A scientist at astrology's funeral : Richard Saunder and the Apollo Anglicanus / William E. Burns -- Natural magic, hermeticism and skepticism : Orientalizing chemical curiosity in eighteenth-century France / St©♭phane Van Damme -- Afterword / Jonathan Barry. |
| Abstract | "Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Age of Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth-century. With a broad chronological scope that ranges from the end of the seventeenth century into the early nineteenth century, this volume is useful for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars as well as those with a general interest in magic, witchcraft, and spirits in the Enlightenment"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Enlightenment London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 9780367502775 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021049481 |
| ISBN | 9781003049326 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |