CONFUSION OF PROPHETS by Patrick Curry

CONFUSION OF PROPHETS by Patrick Curry

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From the 1830s, horoscopic astrology staged a comeback among the urban middle-classes in England. This book examines the colourful mental and cultural underworld which exploited and created this demand, and their patrons and clients, who included sensation-seeking aristocrats.

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CONFUSION OF PROPHETS by Patrick Curry

From the 1830s, horoscopic astrology staged a comeback among the urban middle-classes in England. This book examines the colourful mental and cultural underworld which exploited and created this demand, and their patrons and clients, who included sensation-seeking aristocrats.
Curry, Patrick: - Dr Patrick Curry was born in Canada and has lived in London for over forty years. He is the author of numerous well-regarded scholarly and popular books on topics ranging from environmental ethics to cosmology and literature, and has been a lecturer at the Universities of Kent and Bath Spa. His books include Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity and Ecological Ethics. He is also editor-in-chief of an online journal, The Ecological Citizen. In 2019, he was elected a Companion of the Guild of St George.
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ISBN 13 9781855851368
ISBN 10 1855851369
Title CONFUSION OF PROPHETS
Author Curry Patrick
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1992-09-30
Number of pages 192
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