Imagining Magic

Andrew Sneddon

Imagining Magic

Andrew Sneddon

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Abstract

This chapter explores how magic and the witch were represented in European, eighteenth-century imagery, including magic lanterns, relating them to the major themes of the edited collection: decline, change, continuity and modernity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Andrew Sneddon (ed.), A Cultural History of Magic in the Age of Enlightenment.
Subtitle of host publication	The Cultural History Series.
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Chapter	8
Pages	179-206
Number of pages	27
Volume	4
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9781350124073
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 18 Sept 2025

Keywords

Magic
painting
Phantasmagoria
magic lanterns
magicians
witchcraft
Enlightenment

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Imagining Magic

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A Cultural History of Magic in the Age of Enlightenment: The Cultural History Series.

‘Introduction’

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