The Place of Enchantment
Subtitle: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780226642017
Subjects: Occultism & quasi-religious beliefs; History; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; History: World; British Isles; Europe - General; Parapsychology - General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Parapsychology; 19th century; Great Britain; Occultism
First sentence: In September 1898 two respectable Victorians met in a private house in London for the express purpose of traveling to the planets.
Description: Alex Owen situates seemingly anachronistic practices such as exploratory sex magic, alchemy and astral travel, alongside revolutionary understandings of rationality in a demonstration of how a newly psychologized magic operated in conjunction with the developing patterns of modern life.