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- catalog abstract ""How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent symbol of pathology? Fictions of Disease is a unique exploration of the stories laymen and physicians constructed around such bodies, producing a fascinating cultural imaginary of bodily disorder. Healy argues that these narratives not only shaped visions of unhealthy social bodies, but had profound political consequences too. City spaces, social and religious structures, economic initiatives, and drastic decisions about how to cure the disease at the head of the English body, were fashioned by circulating fictions of 'plaguy', 'pocky' and 'glutted' bodies. Ranging from the Reformation through the English Civil War, this original approach opens an important new window of understanding onto the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, Heywood, Dekker and others."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12348237.
- catalog coverage "England Intellectual life 17th century.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent symbol of pathology? Fictions of Disease is a unique exploration of the stories laymen and physicians constructed around such bodies, producing a fascinating cultural imaginary of bodily disorder. Healy argues that these narratives not only shaped visions of unhealthy social bodies, but had profound political consequences too. City spaces, social and religious structures, economic initiatives, and drastic decisions about how to cure the disease at the head of the English body, were fashioned by circulating fictions of 'plaguy', 'pocky' and 'glutted' bodies. Ranging from the Reformation through the English Civil War, this original approach opens an important new window of understanding onto the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, Heywood, Dekker and others."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-267) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 277 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0333963997".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave,".
- catalog spatial "England Intellectual life 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "2002 C-333".
- catalog subject "820.9/356 21".
- catalog subject "Diseases in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "History of Medicine England.".
- catalog subject "History, 16th Century England.".
- catalog subject "History, 17th Century England.".
- catalog subject "Human Body England.".
- catalog subject "Human body in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and medicine England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and medicine England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Modern England.".
- catalog subject "Medicine in Literature England.".
- catalog subject "Medicine in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR438.M43 H43 2001".
- catalog subject "Plague in literature.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "WZ 330 H434f 2001".
- catalog title "Fictions of disease in early modern England : bodies, plagues and politics / Margaret Healy.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".