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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 centuri...

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1. Verfasser: Linden, Stanton J., 1935- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
Ausgabe:Paperback edition.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in the English Renaissance.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813150178
0813150175

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