Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature: The Alchemical Literary Imagination
Author:   Kathleen Renk (Northern Illinois University, USA.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138547513


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   06 February 2018
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Author:   Kathleen Renk (Northern Illinois University, USA.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781138547513


ISBN 10:   1138547514
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   06 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction 1. The Alchemical Imagination 2. Victorian Science: Debating Darwin and Natural History 3. Hermeticism ‘Gone Underground’: Victorian Science and Pseudo Science in the Age of Empire 4. Superseding Newtonian Determinism: Chaos, Quantum Heresies and Hyperspace in Post-Imperial Literature 5. Paradise as Chaos: The Deconstruction of Determinism Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Kathleen Renk is an Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. The author of Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts: Women's Writing and Decolonization (Virginia, 1999) and critical essays on the work of A.S. Byatt, Wilson Harris, Peter Carey, and Pauline Melville, she teaches British modernist and postcolonial literatures. 　

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