Victorian Alchemy by Eleanor Dobson

Victorian Alchemy by Eleanor Dobson

An engaging study of how Victorian-era representations of ancient Egypt blended science and mysticism.

With its material remnants paradoxically symbolizing both antiquity and modernity to Victorian audiences, ancient Egypt was at once evocative of ancient magical power and of cutting-edge science, a tension that might be productively conceived of as alchemical. Examining literature and other cultural forms including art, photography, and early film, Eleanor Dobson herein traces the myriad ways in which the Victorian fascination with ancient Egypt evoked the entwined forces of magic and science, providing more than a mere setting for Orientalist fantasies and nightmares. From imaging technologies and astronomy to investigations into the electromagnetic spectrum and the human mind itself, this book demonstrates how conceptions of modernity were inextricably bound up in the contemporary reception of the ancient world, illustrating how such ideas took root and flourished in the Victorian era and persist to this day.

Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham

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ISBN 13	9781787358508
ISBN 10	178735850X
Titel	Victorian Alchemy
Autor	Eleanor Dobson
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	UCL Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-10-06
Seitenanzahl	279
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