Rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England
By: by Jennifer C. Vaught
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754669487; 9780754697121
Subjects: Health in literature; Rhetoric; History and criticism; Medieval influences; English literature; Philosophy; Medicine in literature; Human body in literature; Language and languages; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England / Jennifer C. Vaught; title: Reading the instructive language of the body in the Middle Ages; title: Episcopal anatomies of the early Middle Ages / Lisi Oliver and Maria Mahoney; title: This disfigured people: representations of sin as pathological bodily and mental affliction in Inferno / James C. Nohrnberg; title: "My body to warente": linguistic corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner / Laila Abdalla; title: Imaginative discourses of sexuality, delightful and dangerous; title: Spenser's Crowd of cupids and the language of pleasure / William A. Oram; title: Cordelia's can't : rhetorics of reticence and (dis)ease in King Lear / Emma L.E. Rees; title: Bodily metaphors of disease and science in Renaissance England; title: Reckoning death: women and the bills of mortality in early modern London / Richelle Munkhoff; title: "Revolving this will teach thee how to curse": a lesson in sublunary exhalations / Rebecca Totaro; title: The power of linguistic infection and cure in early modern literature and medicine; title: Shakespeare and the irony of early modern metaphor and metonymy / William Spates; title: Body of death: the Pauline inheritance in Donne's sermons, Spenser's Maleger, and Milton's Sin and death / Judith H. Anderson; title: Subventing disease: anger, passions, and the non-naturals / Stephen Pender.