Rider Haggard and the imperial occult : hermetic discourse and Romantic contiguity /
"This book critically examines the literary oeuvre of H. Rider Haggard, placing it in the nineteenth- century occult milieu in which he wrote, and from which he took ideas which remained with him into the first decades of the twentieth century. Building upon earlier trajectories of Haggard stud...
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Format: | Licensed eBooks |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2022]
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Series: | Aries book series ;
v. 31. |
Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3118629 |
Table of Contents:
- Atenism
- Original monotheism
- Osiride Christology and ancient Egyptian psychology
- Uroborus and Uraeus : cyclical and linear time
- Mnemohistory and metageography of Egypt
- An archaeology of the imaginal
- The one God and hidden nature
- The initiates of Sais
- The Ayesha mythos and the alchemical she
- Romance and the providential aesthetic
- The sublime and the numinous
- The noetic organ of imagination
- Graven images : Victorian constructions of Buddhism
- Egyptian Hermes in England
- Occult science
- Reincarnation and related concepts
- The cartography of the lost world
- The truth of the metaphysical novel.