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Textualizing Illness

Medicine and Culture in New England 1620–1730

Marc Priewe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2014
Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg
9783825363628 (ISBN)

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'Textualizing Illness' investigates how colonial New England writings represented and contributed to the meaning-endowment of diseases. It explores how the textual configurations of illnesses changed in the wake of the scientific revolution, growing numbers of non-Puritan settlers and African slaves, and increasing contacts with Native Americans. The representations of colonial body perceptions and illness experiences are often hidden in a broad textual archive and thus require "reading across" different texts and authors to analyze the positions and functions of the sick body in both medical and cultural discourses. In the illness narratives surveyed here, medical issues - from actual practices to intellectual responses to diseases - illustrate how early American literature and society developed a regional distinctiveness while being embedded in transnational circuits of knowledge formation and cultural practices.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2014
Reihe/Serie	American Studies ; 249
Verlagsort	Heidelberg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 210 mm
Gewicht	578 g
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	amerikanische Literatur /17. Jahrhundert • amerikanische Literatur /18. Jahrhundert • Kolonialliteratur • Körperwahrnehmung • Krankheit /i. d. Literatur • Krankheitsdarstellung • Mather, Cotton • Medizin /i. d. Literatur • Neuengland-Literatur • Winthrop Jr., John
ISBN-13	9783825363628 / 9783825363628
Zustand	Neuware