书目名称 | Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain |
编辑 | David Thorley |
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丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
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描述 | This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social and religious frameworks by which illness was more commonly recorded and understood. The story that emerges is of illness written into personal manuscripts in prescriptive rather than original terms. This study uncovers the ways in which illness, so described, contributed to the self-patterning these texts were set up to perform.. |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Early Modern; Life-writing; Religion; Medicine; Health; British and Irish Literature |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59312-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-95515-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-59312-2Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 |
issn_series | 2634-6435 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |