Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature
This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly addr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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