Darke Hierogliphicks - Alchemy in English Literature From Chaucer to the Restoration

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing.

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• Autori: Stanton J Linden, Stanton J. Linden
• Editore: University Press of Kentucky
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.08.2008
• EAN: 9780813192123
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-9212-3
• Pagine: 384
• Serie: Studies in the English Renaiss; Studies in the English Renaissance
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata