English Magic and Imperial Madness

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

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