Home remedies : poems /
In her powerful new collection, Sarah Kennedy draws on the historical record, as well her personal life, to explore relationships and bodies, both physical and textual. Kennedy underscores human frailty in poems that dramatize the lives of British women who kept recipe manuscripts containing both me...
| Основен автор: | Kennedy, Sarah, 1960- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rogue :
Louisiana State University Press,
2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=329437 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Home remedies. |
| Резюме: |
In her powerful new collection, Sarah Kennedy draws on the historical record, as well her personal life, to explore relationships and bodies, both physical and textual. Kennedy underscores human frailty in poems that dramatize the lives of British women who kept recipe manuscripts containing both medicinal and culinary "receipts" during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These women often recorded their frustrations and triumphs as both doctors and household managers for their families, and their trials with illness, childbearing, and aging resonate with contemporary poems about the vul. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (viii, 69 pages) |
| ISBN: |
9780807135099 0807135097 |