Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-95515-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thorley, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations.- Introduction.- 1. Diaries.- 2. Autobiography.- 3. Letters.- 4. Poetry.- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-

Über Autor(innen)

David Thorley received his doctorate from Durham University, UK. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Durham.