Kaara L. Peterson

Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

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Produktbeschreibung

Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England's significant and sustained interest in the hysterical diseases of women. Kaara L. Peterson assembles a fascinating collection of medical materials to support her discussion of contemporary debates about varieties of uterine pathologies and the implications of these debates for our understanding of drama's representation of hysterica passio cases in particular, among other hysterical maladies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781138272125
• ISBN-10: 1138272124
• Artikelnr.: 57045179

Autorenporträt

Kaara L. Peterson is Associate Professor of English Literature at Miami University, USA. She is working on a new project about the portrayal of virginity in early modern literature and art.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1 1With a few minor alterations
the portions of this chapter discussing King Lear first appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly 57.1 (Spring 2006): 1-22 as "Historica Passio: King Lear
Early Modern Medicine
and Editorial Practice."; Chapter 2 1 An early version of some portions of this chapter appeared as "Shakespearean Revivifications: Early Modern Undead" in Shakespeare Studies XXXII (Fall 2004): 40-66; Chapter 3 "The Ink of Lovers": Revenge Tragedy's Blood Letters; Chapter 4 1An earlier
shorter version of some parts of this chapter appeared as "Performing Arts: Hysterical Disease
Exorcism
and Shakespeare's Theater" in Disease
Diagnosis
and Cure on the Early Modern Stage
ed. Stephanie Moss and Kaara L. Peterson (Burlington
VT and Aldershot
UK: Ashgate
2004) 3-30; epilo Epilogue Hermione's Legacy
or Hysteria after 1700;