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[A] valuable contribution towards a deeper understanding of the interrelatedness of occult discourses and those of modernist art. -- Tessel M. Bauduin * Cultural History * [A] valuable contribution towards a deeper understanding of the interrelatedness of occult discourses and those of modernist art. The connection she establishes between modernism’s problem of mimesis and its recourse to the magical as a solution is convincingly argued. -- Tessel M. Bauduin, University of Amsterdam * Cultural History, Volume 4, no 2 * ""In this provocative and engaging book, Leigh Wilson finds magic at the heart of modernism. Looking afresh at its fascination with the occult, she suggests that modernist writers and filmmakers drew on magical thinking in their experimental art to create works that radically transformed the world they knew.""Professor Helen Carr, Goldsmiths, University of London ""This is a major contribution not only to our understanding of modernism's fascination with the supernatural, but of modernism’s fundamental investment in modern magic. It breaks new ground by considering magic’s importance for filmmakers and artists, novelists and poets. It is the most important book on the topic in over a decade.""Dr Stephen Ross, University of Victoria * Dr Stephen Ross, University of Victoria and Professor Helen Carr, Goldsmiths, University of London * I learned a great deal in reading Modernism and Magic and recommend it unreservedly to anyone interested in modernism and the occult. -- LEE GARVER, Butler University * ELT 57 : 4 * Wilson’s text provides an excellent rereading of modernism in the context of magic. It offers the reader wonderful background on a number of modernist authors and filmmakers. -- Erin Hollis, California State University * James Joyce Quarterly, 50.4 * The greatest achievement of this book lies in its opening up an area of intellectual activity that hitherto has been underestimated, under-respected, and even viewed as dubious, despite the fact that it is of crucial importance for the development of the arts and thought of the twentieth century (continuing to this day). -- Thomas Steinfeld * Modernism/modernity, Volume 21, Number 1 *

In this provocative and engaging book, Leigh Wilson finds magic at the heart of modernism. Looking afresh at its fascination with the occult, she suggests that modernist writers and filmmakers drew on magical thinking in their experimental art to create works that radically transformed the world they knew. Professor Helen Carr, Goldsmiths, University of London This is a major contribution not only to our understanding of modernism's fascination with the supernatural, but of modernism's fundamental investment in modern magic. It breaks new ground by considering magic's importance for filmmakers and artists, novelists and poets. It is the most important book on the topic in over a decade. Dr Stephen Ross, University of Victoria Wilson's text provides an excellent rereading of modernism in the context of magic. It offers the reader wonderful background on a number of modernist authors and filmmakers. Erin Hollis, California State University - James Joyce Quarterly, 50.4 [A] valuable contribution towards a deeper understanding of the interrelatedness of occult discourses and those of modernist art. - Tessel M. Bauduin, Cultural History

In this provocative and engaging book, Leigh Wilson finds magic at the heart of modernism. Looking afresh at its fascination with the occult, she suggests that modernist writers and filmmakers drew on magical thinking in their experimental art to create works that radically transformed the world they knew. Professor Helen Carr, Goldsmiths, University of LondonThis is a major contribution not only to our understanding of modernism's fascination with the supernatural, but of modernism's fundamental investment in modern magic. It breaks new ground by considering magic's importance for filmmakers and artists, novelists and poets. It is the most important book on the topic in over a decade. Dr Stephen Ross, University of VictoriaWilson's text provides an excellent rereading of modernism in the context of magic. It offers the reader wonderful background on a number of modernist authors and filmmakers. Erin Hollis, California State University - James Joyce Quarterly, 50.4[A] valuable contribution towards a deeper understanding of the interrelatedness of occult discourses and those of modernist art. - Tessel M. Bauduin, Cultural History

In this provocative and engaging book, Leigh Wilson finds magic at the heart of modernism. Looking afresh at its fascination with the occult, she suggests that modernist writers and filmmakers drew on magical thinking in their experimental art to create works that radically transformed the world they knew. Professor Helen Carr, Goldsmiths, University of LondonThis is a major contribution not only to our understanding of modernism's fascination with the supernatural, but of modernism's fundamental investment in modern magic. It breaks new ground by considering magic's importance for filmmakers and artists, novelists and poets. It is the most important book on the topic in over a decade. Dr Stephen Ross, University of Victoria

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Leigh Wilson is Reader in Modern Literature in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. Her research focuses on modernism, on the place of supernatural and occult beliefs and practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on the contemporary British novel. She is the author of Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult (EUP, 2013).

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