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Main Author: Kennedy, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rogue Louisiana State University Press 2009
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Item Description:pt. 1. The plague years -- pt. 2. In sickness and in health -- pt. 3. Conviction
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 69 pages)
ISBN:0807135097
9780807135099

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