Contents

List of Illustrations

Part One: Cultural Diseases

1	Introduction
2	Pleasure’s Dangers
3	Looking Backwards: Nostalgia Mode

Part Two: Fashion

4	Magic Fashion
5	Glamour: The Secret Behind the Sheen
6	Dressed to Kill
7	Camouflage and its Vicissitudes
8	Fashion and Memory
9	Urbane Fashion

Part Three: The Future We Have Lost

10	Austerity in Retrospect: The Glamour of Masochism
11	Post-war Perverts
12	Bethnal Green

Part Four: Magic Moments

13	Modern Magic
14	‘Disoriented Agnosticism’: Reading the Tarot
15	Secret Worlds
16	Temporary Gods
17	Conclusion
	Epilogue: Danse

Notes