Rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England / edited by Jennifer C. Vaught.
| Other author | Vaught, Jennifer C. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010. |
| Description | xiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity. ^A585867 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010023022 |
| ISBN | 9780754669487 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0754669483 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780754697121 (eBook) |
| ISBN | 0754697126 (eBook) |