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The Family Romance of Modern Magic: Contesting Robert-Houdin’s Cultural Legacy in Contemporary France

Graham M. Jones is a Haarlow-Cotsen postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, where he is also a lecturer in the Council of the Humanities. Trained as an anthropologist, between 2003 and 2006, Jones conducted research on the culture of the magic world in contemporary France. In this chapter, Jones investigates the legacy of the great French magician and putative “father of modern magic,”Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin. Jones blends ethnography and literary analysis to account for the lasting influence of Robert-Houdins memoir, A Conjuror’s Confessions. Robert-Houdin continues to appeal, Jones demonstrates, because of his success in articulating persistent anxieties about the aesthetic status of magic and the social status of magicians. Why does this text continue to shape the world of entertainment magic in France and beyond?

Better that you honor your profession than your profession honor you.

—Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin

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