Cultural passions : fans, aesthetes and tarot readers /

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Main Author: Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, [2013]
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Cultural diseases. Introduction ; Pleasure's dangers ; Looking backwards: Nostalgia mode.
  • Part 2: Fashion. Magic fashion ; Glamour: The secret behind the sheen ; Dressed to kill ; Camouflage and its vicissitudes ; Fashion and memory ; Urbane fashion.
  • Part 3: The future we have lost. Austerity in retrospect: The glamour of masochism ; Post-war perverts ; Bethnal green.
  • Part 4: Magic moments. Modern magic ; 'Disoriented agnosticism': Reading the Tarot ; Secret worlds ; Temporary gods ; Conclusion.