A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Alchemy and Alchemists
Agrippa, E. Cornelius. De occulta philosophia.
_____. (Enrique Cornelio Agrippa). Filosofía oculta. Magia natural. Madrid: Alianza.
Alchemia Gebri Arabis . . . Libri. 1545.
Alfonso X. Lapidario. Trans. María Brey Mariño. Madrid: Castalia, 1968.
Ashmole, Elias. Theatrum Chemicum. 1652.
Awad, Louis. "The Alchemist in English Literature: 1. Frankenstein." Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts (Fuad I University, Cairo) 13.1 (May 1951): 33-82.
Bachelard, Gaston. La Terre et les rêveries du repos. Paris: Corti, 1948. 1988.
Bacon, Roger. Mirror of Alcymy.
Böhme, Jakob. Metallurgia. (Alchemy).
Dee, John. La Mónada Jeroglífica. Spanish trans. and facsimile ed. Barcelona: Obelisco, 1992?*
della Porta, G. B. De humana physiognomonia. 1586.
_____. Phytognomonica . . . in quibus nova facillimaque affertur methodus, qua plantarum . . . ex prima extimae faciei inspectione quivis abditas vires assequatur.
_____. Magiae Naturalis Libri Viginti. 1650.
Eliade, Mircea. Le Mythe de l'Alchimie suivi de L'Alchimie asiatique. Paris: Le Livre de Poche.
_____. "XXXV. Teologías y místicas musulmanas." In Eliade, Historia de las creencias y de las ideas religiosas III. Barcelona: RBA, 2005. 155-200. (Shia, ismaelites, Mahdi, Sufis, Dhû'n Nûn, Tirmidhî, Al-Hallâj, Algazel, Avicenna, Averroes, Ibn-Arabî, Shrawad^m Rumî, alchemy).
_____. "XXXVIII. Religión, magia y tradiciones herméticas antes y después de las Reformas." In Eliade, Historia de las creencias y de las ideas religiosas III. Barcelona: RBA, 2005. 283-330.* (Folk traditions; catharsis, witch hunting, Luther, Erasmus, Zwingli, Calvin, neoplatonism, hermeticism, humanism, alchemy, Paracelsus, Newton).
Hutin, S. L'Alchimie. Paris: PUF.
Ioannes Isaac of Holland. Operum mineralium M. Ioannis Isaaci Hollandis, sive de lapide philosophiae. Ed. L. Zetznerus. in Theatrum chemicum. 1602-22. (Alchemy, etc.).
Jung, Carl Gustav. Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido. 1912.
_____. Symbole der Wandlung: Analyse des Vorspiels einer Schizophrenie. Zürich: Rascher Verlag, 1952.*
_____. The Psychology of the Unconscious. New York, 1916. (= Transformations and Symbols of the Libido).
_____. Symbols of Transformation. (= Transformations and Symbols of the Libido).
Linden, Stanton J. Darke Hieroglyphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration. 1996.
_____. Mystical Metal of Old: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture. (AMS Studies in the Renaissance, 42). Brooklyn (NY): AMS Press, c. 2006.
Mackay, Charles. "The Alchymists." In Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Ware: Wordsworth, 1995. 98-256.* (Alfarabi, Avicenna, Alain de Lisle, Raymond Lulli, Roger Bacon, Jean de Meung, George Ripley, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, George Agricola, Dr. Dee, Edward Kelly, Rosicrucians, Michael Mayer, Robert Fludd, Jacob Böhmen, Cagliostro).
Martels, Zweder von, ed. Alchemy Revisited. Leiden: Brill, 1989.
Mylius. Anatomia auri. 1628.
Newman, W. R. Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.
Norton, John. The Ordinal; or, A Manual of the Chemical Art. (Poem on alchemy). Printed by Ashmole in Theatrum Chemicum 1652.
Ripley, George. Compounde of Alchemie. Poem. 1471. Printed 1591.
_____. Compounde of Alchemie. In Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum.
_____. Medulla. Poem on alchemy. 1476.
Sermonti, Giuseppe. Le fiabe del sottosuolo. Milan: Rusconi, 1989. (Alchemy and fairy tales).
Stolzenberg, Stoltzius von. Chymischen Lustgärtlein. 1624.
Waite, A. E. The Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelly (The Englishman's Two Excellent Treatises on the Philospher's Stone, together with the Theatre of Terrestrial Astronomy). London, 1983.
Walters, R. "Henry Vaughan and the Alchemists." Review of English Studies 23.90 (1947): 107-22.
Yates, F. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. 1972.
Zachaire, Denis. True Natural Philosophy of Metals. (Alchemy).
Zalbidea, Víctor, Victoria Paniagua, Elena Fernández de Cerro y Castro del Amo. Alquimia y ocultismo. Ediciones de Bolsillo.
Zetznerus, L., ed. Theatrum chemicum. 1602-22.
Audio
Jonson, Ben. The Alchemist (Captain Face's Elixir of Immortality). Audiobook. YouTube (Free Audio Books and Recordings) 12 June 2014.*
2014
Literature
Bogan, Louise. "The Alchemist." Poem.
Coelho, Paulo. O alquimista. Novel. 1988.
_____. El alquimista. Trans. Montserrat Mira (1997). (Biblioteca Pablo Coelho). Barcelona: Planeta, 2002. 10th ed. 2004.*
Godwin, William. St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century. Novel. London, 1799.
_____. St. Leon. Pirated edition. Dublin, 1800.
_____. St. Leon. Pirated edition. Alexandria (VA), 1801. 1802.
_____. St. Leon. 1816.
_____. St. Leon. 1 vol. (Bentley's Standard Novels, 5). London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831.
_____. St. Leon. Ed. Pamela Clemit. Vol. 4 of. The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin. Gen. ed. Mark Philp. London, 1992.
_____. St. Leon. Ed. Pamela Clemit. (World's Classics). Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.* (Alchemists, immortality).
Harris, Peter. El secreto del peregrino. (Best Seller). Barcelona: Random House Mondadori - DeBols!llo, 2010.*
Jonson, Ben. The Alchemist. Comedy. c. 1610.
_____. The Alchemist. Ed. F. H. Mares. London: Methuen.
_____. The Alchemist. Ed. Peter Bement. London: Routledge, 1987.
_____. The Alchemist. In The Alchemist and Other Plays. Ed. Gordon Campbell. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.
_____. The Alchemist. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 861-960.*
Riechmann, Jorge. Conversaciones entre alquimistas. (Marginales, 244). Barcelona: Tusquets, 2007.
Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Novel. New York: Random House Children's Books- Delacorte Press, 2007.* (Nicholas Flamel, d. 1418; John Dee, 1527-1608).
Silva, Lorenzo. El alquimista impaciente. Novel. Barcelona: Destino, 2000. (Premio Nadal 2000).
