Contributors analyze works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others to track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health " physical, emotional, and spiritual. Focusing on literary genres (epic, lyric, satire, drama, sermon) and cultural history artifacts, the volume examines the extent to which rhetorical figures of sickness and health inform literature, religion, science, and medicine in medieval and early modern England and Europe.
Contributors analyze works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others to track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health " physical, emotional, and spiritual. Focusing on literary genres (epic, lyric, satire, drama, sermon) and cultural history artifacts, the volume examines the extent to which rhetorical figures of sickness and health inform literature, religion, science, and medicine in medieval and early modern England and Europe.
Jennifer C. Vaught is Jean-Jacques and Aurore Labbé Fournet / Board of Regents Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Jennifer C.Vaught; part01 Reading the Instructive Language of the Body in the Middle Ages; Chapter 1 Episcopal Anatomies of the Early Middle Ages Lisi Oliver Maria Mahoney; Chapter 2 "This Disfigured People": Representations of Sin as Pathological Bodily and Mental Affliction in Dante's Inferno XXIX-XXX James C. Nohrnberg; Chapter 3 "My body to warente...": Linguistic Corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner Laila Abdalla; part02 Imaginative Discourses of Sexuality Delightful and Dangerous; Chapter 4 William A. Oram; Chapter 5 Cordelia's Can't: Rhetorics of Reticence and (Dis)ease in King Lear Emma L. E. Rees; part03 Bodily Metaphors of Disease and Science in Renaissance England; Chapter 6 Reckoning Death: Women Searchers and the Bills of Mortality in Early Modern London Richelle Munkhoff; Chapter 7 Rebecca Totaro; part04 The Power of Linguistic Infection and Cure in Early Modern Literature and Medicine; Chapter 8 Shakespeare and the Irony of Early Modern Disease Metaphor and Metonymy William Spates; Chapter 9 Body of Death: The Pauline Inheritance in Donne's Sermons Spenser's Maleger and Milton's Sin and Death Judith H. Anderson; Chapter 10 Subventing Disease: Anger Passions and the Non-Naturals Stephen Pender;
Introduction Jennifer C.Vaught; part01 Reading the Instructive Language of the Body in the Middle Ages; Chapter 1 Episcopal Anatomies of the Early Middle Ages Lisi Oliver Maria Mahoney; Chapter 2 "This Disfigured People": Representations of Sin as Pathological Bodily and Mental Affliction in Dante's Inferno XXIX-XXX James C. Nohrnberg; Chapter 3 "My body to warente...": Linguistic Corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner Laila Abdalla; part02 Imaginative Discourses of Sexuality Delightful and Dangerous; Chapter 4 William A. Oram; Chapter 5 Cordelia's Can't: Rhetorics of Reticence and (Dis)ease in King Lear Emma L. E. Rees; part03 Bodily Metaphors of Disease and Science in Renaissance England; Chapter 6 Reckoning Death: Women Searchers and the Bills of Mortality in Early Modern London Richelle Munkhoff; Chapter 7 Rebecca Totaro; part04 The Power of Linguistic Infection and Cure in Early Modern Literature and Medicine; Chapter 8 Shakespeare and the Irony of Early Modern Disease Metaphor and Metonymy William Spates; Chapter 9 Body of Death: The Pauline Inheritance in Donne's Sermons Spenser's Maleger and Milton's Sin and Death Judith H. Anderson; Chapter 10 Subventing Disease: Anger Passions and the Non-Naturals Stephen Pender;
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