Alchemical Discourse in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Hitchcox, Kathryn Langford.
Alchemical Discourse in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 3033A.
- Description
- Most scholarly treatments of Chaucer and alchemy deal with whether Chaucer believed in alchemy or whether he condemned it, but Chaucer's primary concern with alchemy was to use it as "symbolic language," especially in SNT and CYT. This salvific language links the spiritual and the physical, God and humanity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.