Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Curtis Runstedler

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-28
Mått148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt403 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Middle Ages
Antal sidor205
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031266058

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Curtis Runstedler AFHEA is an IRIS-funded (Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems) postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He was previously a Teach@Tübingen fellow with the Excellence Initiative at Tübingen University, Germany, and was awarded his PhD in Medieval Literature at Durham University, UK, in 2018.

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.

“This book is an able, well-researched, engaging overview of alchemy, alchemical poetry, and exemplarity in medieval literature, primarily focusing, as its title would intimate, on English-language writings. … it’s an important contribution to the field and should serve up some new candidates for Middle English poetry syllabi.” (Eleanor Johnson, Speculum, Vol. 99 (4), October, 2024)“Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry offers useful insights for scholars in a range of fields, most significantly for those interested in the complex literary valences of knowledge-making and transmission.” (Thomas Banbury, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, January 7, 2024)