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Raising Spirits

How a Conjuror’s Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment

J Barry author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:19th Nov '13

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Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th 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.

ISBN: 9781137378934

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 352g

146 pages