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Symptomatic Subjects – Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England: Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science

Autor Julie Orlemanski
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mai 2019
In the period just prior to medicine's modernity, England saw a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Julie Orlemanski's Symptomatic Subjects shows how late medieval English writers drew on the discourse of medicine to narrate anew the crossings-and the conflicts-between physiology and personhood.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812250909
ISBN-10: 0812250907
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science


Cuprins

List of Abbreviationsix
Introduction
PART I. THINKING WITH Phisik
Chapter 1. Imagining Etiology
Chapter 2. Cause, Authority, Sign, and Book
PART II. PLAYING WITH Phisik
Chapter 3. Satire and Medical Materialism
Chapter 4. Embodying Causation in Exempla
PART III. EMPLOTTING Phisik
Chapter 5. The Metaphysics of Phisik in the "Knight's Tale"
Chapter 6. Desire and Defacement in the Testament of Cresseid
Part IV. PERSONALIZING Phisik
Chapter 7. Symptoms and the Signifying Condition in Hoccleve's Series
Chapter 8. From Noise to Narration in the Book of Margery Kempe
Coda
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments

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