Marc Priewe

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Textualizing Illness: Medicine and Culture in New England 1620-1730Hardcover, 1 July 2014

Textualizing Illness: Medicine and Culture in New England 1620-1730
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Part of Series
American Studies - A Monograph
Print Length
408 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Universitatsverlag Winter
Date Published
1 Jul 2014
ISBN-10
3825363627
ISBN-13
9783825363628

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Marc Priewe
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 July 2014
Dimensions:
21.34 x 14.48 x 3.05 cm
ISBN-10:
3825363627
ISBN-13:
9783825363628
Language:
English
Location:
Heidelberg
Pages:
408
Weight:
566.99 gm

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