Author

Publication

2016 - Palgrave Macmillan Limited

Language

English

Word Count

57,750 words, Guess

Page Count

231 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781137593115
  • ISBN-101137593113
  • OCLC Control Number944474000
  • Better World Books9781137593115
  • Open LibraryOL34534479M

Classifications

  • LCCPN1-PN6790
  • LCCPR438.D56 T46 2016

Description

"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 was in which illness, so described, contributed to the self-patterning these texts were set up to perform."--Page [4] of cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century BritainPalgrave Macmillan Limited2016

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