ENGL 748b: Mercurius Americanus: Magic, Miracles, and Metaphors in the Conquest of America

RALPH BAUER
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Department of English
University of Maryland,
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ENGLISH 748b:
Mercurius Americanus:

Magic, Miracles, and Metaphors in the Conquest of America, 1492-1700

Resources

Primary texts on order in bookstores
- Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of the empire of Guaiana. (Univ. of Oklahoma Press). ISBN: 0806130202
- Christopher Columbus, The Four Voyages (Penguin) ISBN: 0140442170
- Edward Taylor, The Poems of Edward (Univ. of North Carolina) ISBN: 0807842486
- Lyndy Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemy (Cambrige UP) ISBN: 0521000009
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream (Penguin) ISBN: 0140447032
- Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet (Belknap Press) ISBN: 067495999X
- William Shakespeare The Tempest (Signet Classic) ISBN: 7114900295
- Thomas Hariot, A Briefe and True Reportory (Dover) ISBN: 0486210928
- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, The Account (Arte Publico) ISBN: 1558850600
- Alexander Roob, Alchemy and Mysticisism (Taschen America Llc) ISBN: 3822815144 (optional)
Primary texts at EEBO (restricted access)
- George Sandys, Translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis (1632)
- George Ripley, The Compound of Alchemy (1591)
- Roger Bacon, The Discovery of Miracles (13th century; 1659)
- Five Treatises of the Philosophers Stone (1652)
- The Hermeneutical Banquet (1652)
- Roger Bacon, The Mirror of Alchemy (1597)
- Basilius Valentinus, Of Natural and Supernatural Things (1671)
- The Practice of Chymicall and Hermenicall Physicke (1605)
- Timothy Willis, Search for Causes (1616)
Primary texts at Early Americas Digital Archive