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Darke hierogliphicks : alchemy in English literature from Chaucer to the Restoration / Stanton J. Linden.
Van Pelt Library PR428.A44 L56 1996
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR428.A44 L56 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linden, Stanton J., 1935-
- Series:
- Studies in the English Renaissance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Knowledge and learning--Occultism.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Occultism.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Alchemy in literature.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1996]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-360) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813119685
- OCLC:
- 34515925
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