Remaking Magic: The “Wizard of the North” and Contested Magical Mentalities in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Magic Show

John Henry Anderson, the "Wizard of the North," was one of the most successful stage magicians of the nineteeth century. The article examines who magic shows engaged with the emerging consensus of technological modernity while simultaneously helping to maintain faith in traditional magical authenticity, helping to complexify notions of European disenchantment in the nineteenth century.