Lyn Bennett (Nova Scotia Dalhousie University)

Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600-1700

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Concerned with rhetoric's role in shaping knowledge, culture, and society, this book shows how writers of both sexes engaged the discourse of learned medicine. Will appeal to students and researchers of early modern authors as well as those interested in the histories of gender, medicine, and rhetoric.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 211
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781108441308
• ISBN-10: 1108441300
• Artikelnr.: 60798363

Autorenporträt

Lyn Bennett is an associate professor of English at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. Her interest in rhetoric, writing, and medicine informs her teaching as well as her research. She is the author of Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric in the Poetry of Pembroke, Wroth, and Lanyer (2004) and her work also appears in publications as diverse as Christianity and Literature, Genre, and the Journal of Medical Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 'Their plausible rhetoric'
Part I. Rhetoric and Medicine: 1. 'Another mans profession': physicians and clerics
2. 'Onely the learned': physicians, empirics, and women
3. 'An eloquent tongue': physicians and patients
Part II. The Woman Writer: 4. 'Publishing those truthes': women and affliction
5. 'Hard words and rhetoricall phrases': women and learned medicine
6. 'A bare physician stuft with words': women and domestic healing.