The Afterlife of Alchemy in the British Enlightenment

[Paul Ferguson]

"Under the general rubric of “the afterlife of alchemy,” I have conducted research from February to August 2026 at four archival libraries with a Consortium fellowship.  As a literary scholar, my object has been to study the history of modern chemistry, a relatively unfamiliar topic both for myself and eighteenth-century British literary and cultural studies,"

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