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Author : William Frederick Pinchbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : Fortune-telling
ISBN : LCCN:ca11001524
Author : William Frederick Pinchbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1805
Category : Fortune-telling
ISBN : LCCN:ca11001524
Author : Pinchbeck William Frederick
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 134047199X
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Author : Wendy Bellion
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807838907
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.
Author : Edward Bever,Randall Styers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271079875
This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimize their practices through an overt embrace of evolving forms such as esotericism and supernaturalism. Taking a two-track approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of the construction of the modern self and its relation to the modern preoccupation with magic. Essays examine how modern “rational” consciousness is generated and maintained and how proponents of both magical and scientific traditions rationalize evidence to fit accepted orthodoxy. This book also describes how people unsatisfied with the norms of modern subjectivity embrace various forms of magic—and the methods these modern practitioners use to legitimate magic in the modern world. A compelling assessment of magic from the early modern period to today, Magic in the Modern World shows how, despite the dominant culture’s emphatic denial of their validity, older forms of magic persist and develop while new forms of magic continue to emerge. In addition to the editors, contributors include Egil Asprem, Erik Davis, Megan Goodwin, Dan Harms, Adam Jortner, and Benedek Láng.
Author : Adam Jortner
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813939599
In the decades following the Revolution, the supernatural exploded across the American landscape—fabulous reports of healings, exorcisms, magic, and angels crossed the nation. Under First Amendment protections, new sects based on such miracles proliferated. At the same time, Enlightenment philosophers and American founders explicitly denied the possibility of supernatural events, dismissing them as deliberate falsehoods—and, therefore, efforts to suborn the state. Many feared that belief in the supernatural itself was a danger to democracy. In this way, miracles became a political problem and prompted violent responses in the religious communities of Prophetstown, Turtle Creek, and Nauvoo. In Blood from the Sky, Adam Jortner argues that the astonishing breadth and extent of American miracles and supernaturalism following independence derived from Enlightenment ideas about proof and sensory evidence, offering a chance at certain belief in an uncertain religious climate. Jortner breaks new ground in explaining the rise of radical religion in antebellum America, revisiting questions of disenchantment, modernity, and religious belief in a history of astounding events that—as early Americans would have said—needed to be seen to be believed.
Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674009981
ÒFaith cometh by hearingÓÑso said Saint Paul, and devoted Christians from Augustine to Luther down to the present have placed particular emphasis on spiritual arts of listening. In quiet retreats for prayer, in the noisy exercises of Protestant revivalism, in the mystical pursuit of the voices of angels, Christians have listened for a divine call. But what happened when the ear tuned to GodÕs voice found itself under the inspection of Enlightenment critics? This book takes us into the ensuing debate about Òhearing thingsÓÑan intense, entertaining, even spectacular exchange over the auditory immediacy of popular Christian piety. The struggle was one of encyclopedic range, and Leigh Eric Schmidt conducts us through natural histories of the oracles, anatomies of the diseased ear, psychologies of the unsound mind, acoustic technologies (from speaking trumpets to talking machines), philosophical regimens for educating the senses, and rational recreations elaborated from natural magic, notably ventriloquism and speaking statues. Hearing Things enters this labyrinthÑall the new disciplines and pleasures of the modern earÑto explore the fate of Christian listening during the Enlightenment and its aftermath. In SchmidtÕs analysis the reimagining of hearing was instrumental in constituting religion itself as an object of study and suspicion. The mysticÕs ear was hardly lost, but it was now marked deeply with imposture and illusion.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015026839368
Author : Michael Charlesworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351561099
A study of the ways landscape was perceived in nineteenth-century Britain and France, this book draws on evidence from poetry, landscape gardens, spectacular public entertainments, novels and scientific works as well as paintings in order to develop its basic premise that landscape and the processes of perceiving it cannot be separated. Vision embraces panoramic seeing from high places, but also the seeing of ghosts and spectres when madness and hallucination impinge upon landscape. The rise of geology and the spread of empires upset the existing comfortable orders of comprehension of landscape. Reverie and imagination produced powerful interpretive actions, while landscape in French culture proved central to the rejection of conservative classicism in favour of perceptual questioning of experience. The experience of subjectivity proved central to the perception of landscape while the visual culture of landscape became of paramount importance to modernity during the period in question.
Author : Janice A. Radway,Kevin Gaines,Barry Shank,Penny Von Eschen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405113519
American Studies is a vigorous, bold account of the changes in the field of American Studies over the last thirty-five years. Through this set of carefully selected key essays by an editorial board of expert scholars, the book demonstrates how changes in the field have produced new genealogies that tell different histories of both America and the study of America. Charts the evolution of American Studies from the end of World War II to the present day by showcasing the best scholarship in this field An introductory essay by the distinguished editorial board highlights developments in the field and places each essay in its historical and theoretical context Explores topics such as American politics, history, culture, race, gender and working life Shows how changing perspectives have enabled older concepts to emerge in a different context
Author : William Elliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Legal deposit of books, etc
ISBN : CHI:086872833
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455984
Author : Scott C. Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742527719
In this exciting new work, Scott C. Martin brings together cutting-edge scholarship and articles from diverse sources to explore the cultural dimensions of the market revolution in America. By reflecting on the reciprocal relationship between cultural and economic change, the work deepens our understanding of American society during the turbulent early nineteenth century.
Author : George Brinley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090117193
Author : John A. Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101074712983