num_pages: 270
description: This collection, written from a variety of scholarly perspectives, offers critical insight into how the occult affected the range of experience in nineteenth-century America, whether deployed by believers or decried by detractors. Cultural manifestations such as magic shows, secret societies, sexual utopias, and American letters are examined at their intersection with the occult to see how the secret and the hidden shaped both high and low strata of daily life.
language: English
title: The Occult in Nineteenth-Century America
publisher: The Davies Group Publishers