{"product_id":"englands-hidden-reverse-second-edition-a-secret-history-of-the-esoteric-underground","title":"England's Hidden Reverse, Second Edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEngland's Hidden Reverse, Second Edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDavid Keenan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781907222177\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eStrange Attractor Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e456\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn obsessively researched biography of the three seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound that also illuminates the history of the English underground scene.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on hundreds of hours of interviews with members of the seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, \u003ci\u003eEngland's Hidden Reverse\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates a shadowy but deeply influential underground scene. Together these artists and their many associates accented peculiarities of Englishness through the links and affinities they forged with earlier generations of the island's marginals and outsiders, such as playwright Joe Orton, writers like the decadent Count Eric Stenbock, ecstatic mystic novelist Arthur Machen and occult figures like Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile functioning as an obsessively researched biography of the three interrelated groups, David Keenan's book also works to trace their influences, explicating a reverse current that runs counter to the mainstream, drawing upon occult strains of transgressive performance, queer sensuality, and richly textured sound worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis much-anticipated expanded edition of a book first published in 2002 and long out of print comes completely redesigned, with color throughout, with many new and previously unseen photographs and ephemera, including two new chapters: a final summary of how the \"Reverse\" has shifted gear since the book was first published, and a new essay, \"Crime Calls For Night.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Strange Attractor Press","offers":[{"title":"England's Hidden Reverse, Second Edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground | David Keenan | Paperback | 9781907222177 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks E 1784164","offer_id":67623003160728,"sku":"1784164","price":165.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81s6srmb5-L.jpg?v=1790957711","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/englands-hidden-reverse-second-edition-a-secret-history-of-the-esoteric-underground","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}