Raising spirits :how a Conjuror's Ta...
Barry, Jonathan, (1956-)

 

  • Raising spirits :how a Conjuror's Tale was transmitted across the Enlightenment /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 133.9
    書名/作者: Raising spirits : : how a Conjuror's Tale was transmitted across the Enlightenment // Jonathan Barry.
    作者: Barry, Jonathan,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (viii, 146 pages) : : illustration.
    標題: Spiritualism - History. - Great Britain
    標題: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / General
    標題: Spiritualism.
    標題: Great Britain.
    ISBN: 1137378948 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137378941 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references.
    內容註: Thomas Perks and his Circle -- Arthur Bedford and his Circle -- The Second Phase: Bristol and London 1760-79 -- Evangelical Publishing -- Astrologers -- The Nineteenth Century: Medicine, Spiritualism and Christianity.
    摘要、提要註: 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 the continued importance of locality, oral culture and manuscript copying, especially among the newly educated. It offers an insight into the culture of Anglican clergy, spiritual autodidacts, evangelical preachers, pioneering astrologers, mesmerists and spiritualists, revealing the on-going appeal of Bible-based providentialism. Initially told as a warning-lesson against meddling with the demonic, the story also appealed to those keen to uphold the existence of spirits, and to various groups who themselves wished to communicate with spirits, while its portrayal of a doomed youth attracted sympathy.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137378941
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