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Paperback edition. |
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1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in the English Renaissance
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Studies in the English Renaissance.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 ""A Clew and a Labyrinth"": Backgrounds, Definitions, and Preliminaries; 2 ""Concluden Everemoore Amys"": Chaucer and the Medieval Heritage of Alchemical Satire; 3 Posers and Impostors: Sixteenth-Century Alchemical Satire; 4 The Reformation of Vulcan: Francis Bacon and Alchemy; 5 ""Abstract riddles of our stone"": Ben Jonson and the Drama of Alchemy; 6 ""A True Religious Alchimy"": The Poetry of Donne and Herbert. |
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7 ""That Great & Generall Refining Day"": Alchemy, Allegory, and Eschatology in the Seventeenth Century8 ""Under vailes, and Hieroglyphicall Covertures"": Alchemy in the Poetry of Vaughan and Milton; 9 ""Teutonick Chimericall extravagancies"": Alchemy, Poetry, and the Restoration Revolt against Enthusiasm; 10 Cauda Pavonis; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. |
| Summary |
The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers -- including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramu. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Knowledge and learning -- Alchemy.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
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Alchemy. |
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Alchemy in literature.
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Alchemy in literature. |
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Renaissance -- England.
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Renaissance. |
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England. |
| Chronological Term |
1100-1700 |
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Alchemy in literature |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey Knowledge Alchemy |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey Knowledge Occultism |
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English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism |
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English literature History and criticism Early modern, 1500-1700 |
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English literature History and criticism Middle English, 1100-1500 |
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English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism |
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Geschichte 1360-1660 |
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Renaissance England |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Linden, Stanton J., 1935- Darke hierogliphicks : alchemy in English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration. Paperback edition. Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2008, ©1996 ix, 373 pages Studies in the English Renaissance. 9780813119687 |
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9780813150178 (e-book) |
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0813150175 (e-book) |
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9780813119687 |
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9780813192123 |
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