The Victorian Illusion
Title | The Victorian Illusion PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Herbert Dance |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
Title | Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography PDF eBook |
Author | Albert A. Hopkins |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 509 |
Release | 2022-09-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography" by Albert A. Hopkins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
City of Illusion
Title | City of Illusion PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Ying |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2021-08-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0593114523 |
Read the follow-up to the action-packed adventure that Dan Santat called "An-edge-of-your-seat thriller!" It's been a peaceful three months since Hannah Morgan and Ever Barnes saved their beloved Oskars, and activated the powers of their city's Megantic. Ever now lives with the Morgan family and the two children watch over and learn more about Oskar (the Megantic) every day. But their conflict-free days come to an abrupt end when Mr. Morgan is captured while on a family trip to nearby Alexios, and the kids get into a spat with a group of street magicians who con Hannah out of her pocket money. Chifa and Tanan were never planning to make friends while performing their tricks, but when Hannah and Ever learn of their connection to Vash, they realize there's much more at stake than a few coins. If Hannah and Ever want to find out what Vash is hiding and save both Oskars and Alexios before time runs out, they'll have to learn to trust Chifa and Tanan, and most importantly, find a way to work together.
Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic
Title | Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic PDF eBook |
Author | A. Butler |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2011-01-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230294707 |
The late Victorian period witnessed the remarkable revival of magical practice and belief. Butler examines the individuals, institutions and literature associated with this revival and demonstrates how Victorian occultism provided an alternative to the tightening camps of science and religion in a social environment that nurtured magical beliefs.
The Future of Illusion
Title | The Future of Illusion PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Kahn |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014-01-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 022608390X |
In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological underpinnings of modern politics, Victoria Kahn proposes a return to secularism—whose origins she locates in the art, literature, and political theory of the early modern period—and argues in defense of literature and art as a force for secular liberal culture. Kahn draws on theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt and their readings of Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Spinoza to illustrate that the dialogue between these modern and early modern figures can help us rethink the contemporary problem of political theology. Twentieth-century critics, she shows, saw the early modern period as a break from the older form of political theology that entailed the theological legitimization of the state. Rather, the period signaled a new emphasis on a secular notion of human agency and a new preoccupation with the ways art and fiction intersected the terrain of religion.
Victorian Magic
Title | Victorian Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Lamb |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2016-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317273249 |
First published in 1976. This title brings the Victorian era to life with stories of its spectacular leading magicians, conjurers, illusionists, escapologists, scientific experimenters and tricksters. Geoffrey Lamb describes the kind of people they were and the kind of things they did, whilst keeping intact the mystery surrounding their feats. This skilful reconstruction of this branch of nineteenth-century entertainment gives us a fascinating insight into Victorians and how they liked to be amused. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Spectropia Or Surprising Spectral Illusions
Title | Spectropia Or Surprising Spectral Illusions PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2019-11-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783337864149 |