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Rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England
Title
Rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England / edited by Jennifer C. Vaught.
ISBN
1317063228
9781317063223
9780754669487
9780754697121
Published
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deals mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science, and medicine in England and its surrounding European context.In keeping with the critical trend over the past decade to foreground the matter of the body and the emotions, these essays track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health-physical, emotional, and spiritual. The contributors to this collection approach their intriguing subjects from a wide range of timely, theoretical, and interdisciplinary perspectives, including the philosophy of language, semiotics, and linguistics; ecology; women's and gender studies; religion; and the history of medicine. The essays focus on works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others; the genres of epic, lyric, satire, drama, and the sermon; and cultural history artifacts such as medieval anatomies, the arithmetic of plague bills of mortality, meteorology, and medical guides for healthy regimens.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.
Contents
Rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England / Jennifer C. Vaught
Reading the instructive language of the body in the Middle Ages
Episcopal anatomies of the early Middle Ages / Lisi Oliver and Maria Mahoney
This disfigured people: representations of sin as pathological bodily and mental affliction in Inferno / James C. Nohrnberg
My body to warente: linguistic corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner / Laila Abdalla
Imaginative discourses of sexuality, delightful and dangerous
Spenser's Crowd of cupids and the language of pleasure / William A. Oram
Cordelia's can't : rhetorics of reticence and (dis)ease in King Lear / Emma L.E. Rees
Bodily metaphors of disease and science in Renaissance England
Reckoning death: women and the bills of mortality in early modern London / Richelle Munkhoff
Revolving this will teach thee how to curse: a lesson in sublunary exhalations / Rebecca Totaro
The power of linguistic infection and cure in early modern literature and medicine
Shakespeare and the irony of early modern metaphor and metonymy / William Spates
Body of death: the Pauline inheritance in Donne's sermons, Spenser's Maleger, and Milton's Sin and death / Judith H. Anderson
Subventing disease: anger, passions, and the non-naturals / Stephen Pender.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
History, Medieval
Medicine in Literature
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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