Kathleen Renk: 1 book

Book cover of Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature

Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature

The Alchemical Literary Imagination

by Kathleen Renk
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012

This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science. Writers such as Tom Stoppard, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Atwood critique both imperial science,...
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