Textualizing illness : medicine and culture in New England, 1620-1730 / Marc Priewe
- Author
- Priewe, Marc
- Published
- Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (409 pages).
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- Series
- Contents
- Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Mobile Pathogens, Traveling Knowledge; 2. Writing Cures: John Winthrop Jr.'s Epistolary Healing Networks; 3. Scripting Medicine and Gender; 4. Conversion and the Rhetoric of Disease; 5. Poetic Responses to Illness; 6. Thresholds of Modernity: Cotton Mather's Medical Writings; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
- Summary
- 'Textualizing Illness' investigates how colonial New England writings represented and contributed to the meaning-endowment of diseases. It explores how the textual configurations of illnesses changed in the wake of the scientific revolution, growing numbers of non-Puritan settlers and African slaves, and increasing contacts with Native Americans. The representations of colonial body perceptions and illness experiences are often hidden in a broad textual archive and thus require "reading across" different texts and authors to analyze the positions and functions of the sick body in both medical
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- ISBN
- 3825374742 (e-book)
9783825374747 (electronic bk.)
9783825363628 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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