Magic, science, and empire in postcolonial literature
Subtitle: the alchemical literary imagination
By: Kathleen J. Renk
Series: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature -- 4
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780415899062; 9780203156117
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Hermetism in literature; Science; Philosophy; Science and magic; Imperialism in literature; Literature and science; Postcolonialism in literature; Science in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-164) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The alchemical imagination; title: Victorian science : debating Darwin and natural history; title: Hermeticism "gone underground" : Victorian science and pseudoscience in the age of empire; title: Superseding Newtonian determinism : chaos, quantum heresies, and hyperspace in post-imperial literature; title: Paradise as chaos : the deconstruction of determinism; title: Conclusion.