Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England
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Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

Jennifer C. Vaught

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Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

Jennifer C. Vaught

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Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal 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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781317063216
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Medieval & Early Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England
  10. PART 1: Reading the Instructive Language of the Body in the Middle Ages
  11. PART 2: Imaginative Discourses of Sexuality, Delightful and Dangerous
  12. PART 3: Bodily Metaphors of Disease and Science in Renaissance England
  13. PART 4: The Power of Linguistic Infection and Cure in Early Modern Literature and Medicine
  14. Selected Bibliography
  15. Index
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[author missing]. (2016). Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1634905/rhetorics-of-bodily-disease-and-health-in-medieval-and-early-modern-england-pdf (Original work published 2016)

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[author missing]. (2016) 2016. Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1634905/rhetorics-of-bodily-disease-and-health-in-medieval-and-early-modern-england-pdf.

Harvard Citation

[author missing] (2016) Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1634905/rhetorics-of-bodily-disease-and-health-in-medieval-and-early-modern-england-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

MLA 7 Citation

[author missing]. Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2016. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.