Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Language: English

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, GB, 2018

1349955159 / 9781349955152

Series: Book 7 of 57 - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social and religious frameworks by which illness was more commonly recorded and understood. The story that emerges is of illness written into personal manuscripts in prescriptive rather than original terms. This study uncovers the ways in which illness, so described, contributed to the self-patterning these texts were set up to perform. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016.

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Title
Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Author
David Thorley
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Palgrave Macmillan, GB
Publication year
2018
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Paperback
Language
English
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1349955159
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9781349955152
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Book 7 of 57: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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