Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Runstedler, Curtis (Author)
Institution som forfatter: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XII, 205 p.
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Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Udgivelse:1st ed. 2023.
Serier:The New Middle Ages,
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Online adgang:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26606-5
Format: Electronisk Bog
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Introduction: Alchemy and Exemplarity
  • Chapter 1: A Brief History of Alchemy
  • Chapter 2: Alchemy and Labor in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
  • Chapter 3: Alchemists Behaving Badly in Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
  • Chapter 4: John Lydgate and the Alchemical Churl and the Bird
  • Chapter 5: Merlin and the Queen of Elves: Alchemical Dialogues in the Fifteenth Century
  • Chapter 6: Conclusion.