Illusions and Magic in Victorian Entertainment

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The Victorian lived in an era of inventions and shifts in paradigms, also when it came to entertainment and passtime activities. The first ever movies were shown to a flabbergasted audience that were blown away by the new media’s special effects, kids and adults alike were captivated by new optical toys such  as magic lanterns, stereoscopes and the thaumotrope (spinning disc). There were also hundreds of magicians, fortune tellers and illusionists traveling from town to town with their jaw-dropping shows, some of which were so realistic that audience were left wondering what was real and what were cleverly constructed illusions. In this lecture we dive into the Victorian world of illusions, visions and mesmerising scams that left many people confused and very often-a few hard-earned shillings poorer.

 

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SKU: Victorian-Illusions Categories: Identity, Mythology, Subculture

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Lena Brennand

Speaker: Lena Heide-Brennand

Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer who holds a master’s degree in language, culture, and literature. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and focus has always been topics that others consider strange, eccentric, and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students and audience often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching and lecturing, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She has worked as a curator and lecturer for the famous London based Last Tuesday Society and Viktor Wynd Museum for Fine Art and Unnatural History since 2021 and holds the all-time record in the museum’s history with more than 21000 interests on her online lecture on Erotic Folktales in 2022. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience.

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