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A Confusion of Prophets: Victorian and Edwardian Astrology

by Patrick Curry

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  • 20th century
  • Language: English

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From the 1830s, horoscopic astrology staged a comeback among the urban middle-classes in Part of the popular Victorian fascination with mesmerism, magic and the occult, astrology was particularly disturbing to the intellectual and moral authorities. This book examines the colourful mental and cultural underworld of men like Raphael, Zadkiel and Alan Leo, who exploited and created this demand, and their patrons and clients. These included sensation-seeking aristocrats and people hungry for self-knowledge, but disillusioned with the orthodox religion and with the new scientific answers. Patrick Curry is the author of Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Astrology, Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, Occultism and esotericism, Prophecy, oracles, and revelation, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “occult” in the description and “occult” in the subject metadata.

    • “occult”· in description
    • “occult”· in subject
  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the description and “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Astrology

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “astrology”. Retained metadata contains “Astrology” in the title, “Astrology” in the description, “Astrology” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “astrology”· via OpenAlex
    • “Astrology”· in title
    • “Astrology”· in description
    • “Astrology”· in subject
    • “Astrology”· in edition title
  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    Retained metadata contains “Prophecy” in the description.

    • “Prophecy”· in description
  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the description.

    • “mesmerism”· via OpenAlex
    • “Mesmerism”· in description

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1993-07-01Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology; Medical Entomology and ZoologyEnglish—Unknown

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