Writing Illness And Identity In Seventeenth Century Britain
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Author | : David Thorley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137593121 |
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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.
Author | : David Alwyn Thorley |
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Release | : 2014 |
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Author | : Hannah Newton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019877902X |
Download Misery to Mirth Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Misery to Mirth aims to change our thinking about health in early modern England. Drawing on sources such as diaries and medical texts, it shows that recovery did exist as a concept, and that it was a widely-reported event. The study examines how patients, and their loved ones, dealt with overcoming a seemingly fatal illness.--
Author | : Eva Johanna Holmberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2024-04-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009190504 |
Download Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. Turning the scholarly focus in the study of travel writing from eye-witnessing and proto-ethnography of foreign lands to the 'fashioned' and portrayed selves and 'inner worlds' of travellers – personal memory, autobiographical practices, and lived yet often heavily mediated travel experiences – it opens up perspectives to travel writing in its many modes, that extend both before and after 'lived' travels into their many pre- and afterlives in textual form. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Julie A. Eckerle |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2019-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1496214285 |
Download Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women’s life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England—even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English—and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women’s narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape. This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde—women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland—also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers’ construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.
Author | : Joseph Sterrett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018-10-25 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108429726 |
Download Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examines the performative aspects of prayer and how they were represented in literature in early modern England.
Author | : Nicole A. Jacobs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2020-11-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000264114 |
Download Bees in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book examines apian imagery—bees, drones, honey, and the hive—in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this communal society faced unprecedented challenges even as it came to emblematize the process of colonization itself. The beehive connected the labor of those marginalized by race, class, gender, or species to larger considerations of sovereignty. This study examines the works of William Shakespeare; Francis Daniel Pastorius; Hopi, Wyandotte, and Pocasset cultures; John Milton; Hester Pulter; and Bernard Mandeville. Its contribution lies in its exploration of the simultaneously recuperative and destructive narratives that place the bee at the nexus of the human, the animal, and the environment. The book argues that bees play a central representational and physical role in shaping conflicts over hierarchies of the early transatlantic world.
Author | : Lucinda McCray Beier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317294335 |
Download Sufferers and Healers Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Lucinda McCray Beier’s remarkable book, first published in 1987, enters the world of illness in seventeenth-century England, exploring what it was like to be either a sufferer or a healer. A wide spectrum of healers existed, ranging between the housewife, with her simple herbal preparations, local cunning-folk and bonestters, travelling healers, and formally accredited surgeons and physicians. Basing her study upon personal accounts written by sufferers and healers, Beier examines the range of healers and therapies available, describes the disorders people suffered from, and indicates the various ways sufferers dealt with their ailments. She includes several case-studies of healers and sufferers, and looks in detail at the ways in which women’s identities and duties were associated with childbirth, illness and healing. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Author | : A. Collett |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2010-10-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0230294863 |
Download The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
By investigating women lifewriters' complex quest to distinguish themselves both within and from institutions and communities, this volume uses Kant's concept of unsociable sociability to formulate a divided sense of self at the heart of women's lifewriting, offering a provocative response to the notion of the relational female subject.
Author | : S. Read |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137355034 |
Download Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories.