Enchanted New York : : A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan's Magical Past / / Kevin Dann.
A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical pastManhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales....
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 82 b/w illustrations, 7 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. An Enchanted Inauguration: 1789
- 2. Masonic Manhattan: 1798– 1835
- 3. Magnetic Manhattan: 1836– 187
- 4. Occult Manhattan: 1875– 1914
- 5. Fortean Manhattan: 1920– 1930
- 6. Apocalyptic Manhattan: 1933– 1948
- 7. Sinister Manhattan: 1952– 1981
- Conclusion: Manhattan’s Magical Future
- Notes
- Index
- About the author