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Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
The Alchemical Literary Imagination
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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...
Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge