Foreign bodies and the body politic : discourses of social pathology in early modern England / Jonathan Gil Harris.

Author/creator Harris, Jonathan Gil
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxi, 197 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Literature and society--England. --History. --16th century.
Literature and society--England. --History. --17th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain. --History.
Literature and medicine--England. --History.
Vistors, Foreign, in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Xenophobia--England. --History.

SeriesCambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 25
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 25. ^A305488
Contents Introduction: functionalist organicism and the origin of the body politic -- pt. 1. Pathologizing the body politic. "Enter at the least pore": early modern medicine and bodily infiltration. "Ev'ry poison good for some use": the poisonous political pharmacy and its discontents -- pt. 2. Handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Public enemas: the disjunctions of the excremental Jewish pharmakon. "To stop her mouth with Truths authority": the poisionous tongue of the witch and the word of God -- Conclusion: the persistence of the pathological body politic.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 147-191) and index.
LCCN 97027247
ISBN0521594057

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Joyner General Stacks PR428.B63 H37 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold