Literary Illusions : Performance Magic and Victorian Literature
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
ISBN-10
147446033X
ISBN-13
9781474460330
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 31st, 2025
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
546 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.10 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Conjuring & magicLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century's most popular modes of performance: conjuring.
Literary Illusions explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth centurys most popular modes of performance: conjuring. It explores the ways in which Victorian literature frequently deployed the figure of the magician to explore performance magic as a metaphor for writing itself, and the ways in which conjurors themselves were authors (of highly fictionalised biographies), while authors explored the narrative opportunities offered by magic (most notably Charles Dickens). The book theorises magic as a manifestation of Victorian concerns with authorship and the intellectual property debate, with the magician often deployed as a privileged and occasionally parodied figure in debates on textuality. Literary Illusions offers a reconceptualisation of the relationship between popular culture and literature in the nineteenth century, bringing canonical figures such as Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell into dialogue with lesser known Victorian bestsellers such as Henry Cockton and Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin, and innovatively blends performance history with literary criticism.
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