Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult

by Leigh Wilson

Book Overview

Explores the interplay between modernist experiment and occult discourses in the early twentieth century
While modernism's engagement with the occult has been approached by critics as the result of a loss of faith in representation, an attempt to draw on science as the primary discourse of modernity, or as a hidden history of ideas, Leigh Wilson argues that these discourses have at their heart a magical practice which remakes the relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748627707
• ISBN13: 9780748627707
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"