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Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England /

Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England's significant and sustained interest in the hysterical diseases of women. Kaara L. Peterson assembles a fascinating collection of m...

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Основен автор: Peterson, Kaara L.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.
Серия: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Предмети:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Hysteria in literature.
Women patients > England > History > 16th century.
Women patients > England > History > 17th century.
Literature and medicine > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and medicine > England > History > 17th century.
Medicine > England > History > 16th century.
Medicine > England > History > 17th century.
Medicine in Literature.
History of Medicine.
History, 16th Century.
History, 17th Century.
Hysteria > history.
Patients > history.
Social Conditions > history.
Women > history.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern.
Literature and medicine.
Medicine.
Women patients.
England.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: historica passio: the fit of history
  • Early modern medicine and the case history of King Lear
  • "So troubled with the mother": dying to live
  • "The ink of lovers": revenge tragedy's blood letters
  • "Mocked with art" and playing dead: the theatrics of hysterica passio
  • Epilogue: Hermione's legacy, or hysteria after 1700.

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