Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic
Subtitle: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780521034685
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; History - General History; English; Eastern Europe; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; Sociology - General; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; History / Great Britain; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Eastern European; 16th century; Body, Human, in literature; Early modern, 1500-1700; England; English literature; History; History and criticism; Literature and society
First sentence: This is a book about organic political analogy in Tudor and Stuart England - that is, the diverse, complex ways in which writers of the period conceived of social structure and process through the prism of the human body.