How Long to Read Victorian Alchemy

How Long Does it Take to Read Victorian Alchemy?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 49 minutes to read Victorian Alchemy by Eleanor Dobson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Victorian Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being ‘rediscovered’ in the modern world. With its material remnants somewhat paradoxically symbolic of both antiquity and modernity (in the very currentness of Egyptological excavations), 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’. Allusions to ancient Egypt simultaneously lent an air of legitimacy to depictions of the supernatural while projecting a sense of enchantment onto representations of cutting-edge science. Examining literature and other cultural forms including art, photography and early film, Eleanor Dobson traces the myriad ways in which magic and science were perceived as entwined, and ancient Egypt evoked in parallel with various fields of study, from imaging technologies and astronomy, to investigations into the electromagnetic spectrum and the human mind itself. In so doing, counter to linear narratives of nineteenth-century progress, and demonstrating how ancient Egypt was more than a mere setting for Orientalist fantasies or nightmares, the book establishes how conceptions of modernity were inextricably bound up in the contemporary reception of the ancient world, and suggests how such ideas that took root and flourished in the Victorian era persist to this day.

How long is Victorian Alchemy?

Victorian Alchemy by Eleanor Dobson is 279 pages long, and a total of 72,261 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Victorian Alchemy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 34 minutes to read Victorian Alchemy aloud.

What Reading Level is Victorian Alchemy?

Victorian Alchemy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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