Cultural passions : fans, aesthetes and tarot readers / Elizabeth Wilson.

By:

Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-

Material type:

TextPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780857722188 (e-book)

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural passions : fans, aesthetes and tarot readers.DDC classification:

306 23

LOC classification:

HM621 .W55 2013eb

Online resources:

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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