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

by Jonathan Barry

Despite Enlightenment scepticism about the supernatural, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth 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. It shows the workings of an expanding national print culture, but also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113737893X
• ISBN13: 9781137378934
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"