English Magic and Imperial Madness: The Anti-Colonial Politics of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

ISBN-13: 9781476686271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 178 str.

Peter D. Mathews; Donald E. Palumbo

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Prologue: Merlin's Legacy
• A Mystic Robe of Midnight Blue
• The Mythological Magician
• Merlin's Imperial Legacy
• Chapter 1. The Fantasy of a Return
• The Modern Fantasy of Return
• The Englishness of English Magic
• Magic's Persistence
• Chapter 2. Writing, Text, Mythology
• All the Texts of the World
• The Man Who Was Also a Book
• Writing History, Writing Fiction
• Chapter 3. An Artificial Myth
• Dual Perspectives
• The English Malady
• Mythologies and Evasions
• Chapter 4. Through the ­Looking-Glass
• The Paper Mirror
• The Monarch and the Mirror
• The Nameless Slave
• Chapter 5. Imperialism's Magic Helper
• Anthropology and Unreason
• The Illusionist's Mission
• The Magic Helper
• Chapter 6. The Reason of Unreason
• Magic and Madness
• Reason's Double
• Reason and Unreason
• Epilogue: New Constellations
• The Starry Heavens
• >Endless Night
• Beyond Disenchantment
• The Sky Speaks
• References
• Index