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The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Hardcover)
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The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Hardcover)
Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
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Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the
founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious
occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an
unparalleled efflorescence of engagement with unusual occult schema
and supernatural phenomena such as astral travel, ritual magic, and
reincarnationism. Reflecting the signal array of responses by
authors, artists, actors, impresarios and popular entertainers to
questions of esoteric spirituality and belief, this
interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the enormous interest in
the occult during a time typically associated with the rise of
secularization and scientific innovation. The contributors describe
how the occult realm functions as a turbulent conceptual and
affective space, shifting between poles of faith and doubt, the
sacrosanct and the profane, the endemic and the exotic, the
forensic and the fetishistic. Here, occultism emerges as a practice
and epistemology that decisively shapes the literary enterprises of
writers such as Dion Fortune and Arthur Machen, artists such as
Pamela Colman Smith, and revivalists such as Rolf Gardiner
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