The place of enchantment : British occultism and the culture of the modern

378 Pages·2004·5.423 MB·English

by  Owen, Alex

The Place of Enchantment

The Place of Enchantment
British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern
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The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
 ,professor ofhistory and gender studies at Northwestern
University,is the author ofThe Darkened Room:Women,Power and
Spiritualism in Late Victorian England.
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Owen,Alex,–
The place ofenchantment :British occultism and the culture ofthe
modern / Alex Owen.
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. Occultism—Great Britain—History—th century. I. Title.
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And they said to one another,Behold,this dreamer cometh.
Come now therefore,and let us slay him.
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 ⁄ Enchantment à la Mode /
 / Culture and the Occult at the Fin de Siècle /
 / Magicians of the New Dawn /
 / Sexual Politics /
 / Modern Enchantment and the Consciousness of Self / 
 / Occult Reality and the Fictionalizing Mind / 
 / Aleister Crowley in the Desert / 
 / After Armageddon / 
 / Occultism and the Ambiguities of the Modern / 
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. Anna Kingsford (ca.)
. Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky ()
. Annie Besant ()
. Annie Besant ()
. William Wynn Westcott (nineteenth century)
. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
. Florence Farr (ca.)
. Florence Farr as Louka ()
. Henry Marriott Paget,Yeats()
. Yeats and Todhunter (ca.)
. Annie Horniman ()
. Aleister Crowley as the Adept (ca.)
. Aleister Crowley as the Beast ()
. Victor Neuburg (late s)