The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (repost)
The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern By Alex Owen
Publisher: Univ ersity Of Chic ago Pre ss 2004 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0226642011 | PDF | 5 MB
Publisher: Univ ersity Of Chic ago Pre ss 2004 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0226642011 | PDF | 5 MB
By the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians were seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the conscious and unconscious mind. And anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, and ritual to systematic inquiry. Why, then, in this quintessentially modern moment, did late-Victorian and Edwardian men and women become absorbed by metaphysical quests, heterodox spiritual encounters, and occult experimentation?