William A. Covino is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches in the Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric graduate program. He has been named a Cline University Scholar, and a Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Articulate and Inarticulate Power1. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy MagicRhetoricLiteracy2. The Interanimation of Phantasms The History of PhantasyRenaissance Magic Rhetoric in the Light of FaithAgrippa's Occult Philosophy3. Parcels and Palimpsests From Magic to ScienceNatural Language NationalizedMagic and RomanticismDe Quincey's Palimpsest4. Magic Consciousness Burke's MagicAdorno Against OccultismMarcuse's Universe of DiscourseFreire's Magic Consciousness5. Grimoires and Witches Arresting the New AgeThe National EnquirerMagic Nuggets and Tabloid EpistemologyOprah and the WitchesNotes References Index

"William Covino has written a powerful and deeply engaging book. I am quite taken by his ability to make a subject like magic—a topic susceptible to either an unscholarly 'light' treatment or to an unfortunate academic dismissal—accessible to a broad audience and viable to scholars. I also especially admire the range of his concerns and the thoroughness with which he grounds his discussion in theory and history." — George Kalamaras, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

William A. Covino is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches in the Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric graduate program. He has been named a Cline University Scholar, and a Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Articulate and Inarticulate Power1. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy MagicRhetoricLiteracy2. The Interanimation of Phantasms The History of PhantasyRenaissance Magic Rhetoric in the Light of FaithAgrippa's Occult Philosophy3. Parcels and Palimpsests From Magic to ScienceNatural Language NationalizedMagic and RomanticismDe Quincey's Palimpsest4. Magic Consciousness Burke's MagicAdorno Against OccultismMarcuse's Universe of DiscourseFreire's Magic Consciousness5. Grimoires and Witches Arresting the New AgeThe National EnquirerMagic Nuggets and Tabloid EpistemologyOprah and the WitchesNotes References Index

"William Covino has written a powerful and deeply engaging book. I am quite taken by his ability to make a subject like magic—a topic susceptible to either an unscholarly 'light' treatment or to an unfortunate academic dismissal—accessible to a broad audience and viable to scholars. I also especially admire the range of his concerns and the thoroughness with which he grounds his discussion in theory and history." — George Kalamaras, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

William A. Covino is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches in the Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric graduate program. He has been named a Cline University Scholar, and a Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Articulate and Inarticulate Power1. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy MagicRhetoricLiteracy2. The Interanimation of Phantasms The History of PhantasyRenaissance Magic Rhetoric in the Light of FaithAgrippa's Occult Philosophy3. Parcels and Palimpsests From Magic to ScienceNatural Language NationalizedMagic and RomanticismDe Quincey's Palimpsest4. Magic Consciousness Burke's MagicAdorno Against OccultismMarcuse's Universe of DiscourseFreire's Magic Consciousness5. Grimoires and Witches Arresting the New AgeThe National EnquirerMagic Nuggets and Tabloid EpistemologyOprah and the WitchesNotes References Index

"William Covino has written a powerful and deeply engaging book. I am quite taken by his ability to make a subject like magic—a topic susceptible to either an unscholarly 'light' treatment or to an unfortunate academic dismissal—accessible to a broad audience and viable to scholars. I also especially admire the range of his concerns and the thoroughness with which he grounds his discussion in theory and history." — George Kalamaras, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne