Magic, science, and empire in postcolonial literature : the alchemical literary imagination - Renk, Kathleen J., 1952- (New York : Routledge, 2012)
Introduction -- The alchemical imagination -- Victorian science : debating Darwin and natural history -- Hermeticism'gone underground' : Victorian science and pseudoscience in the age of empire -- Superseding Newtonian determinism : chaos, quantum heresies, and hyperspace in post-imperial literature -- Paradise as chaos : the deconstruction of determinism -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-164) and index.
Keywords: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Science in literature; Hermetism in literature; Science and magic; Imperialism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century; Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century