Textualizing illness :: medicine and culture in New England, 1620-1730 /

'Textualizing Illness' investigates how colonial New England writings represented and contributed to the meaning-endowment of diseases. It explores how the textual configurations of illnesses changed in the wake of the scientific revolution, growing numbers of non-Puritan settlers and Afri...

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1. Verfasser: Priewe, Marc (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:American studies (Munich, Germany) ; Volume 249.
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Zusammenfassung:'Textualizing Illness' investigates how colonial New England writings represented and contributed to the meaning-endowment of diseases. It explores how the textual configurations of illnesses changed in the wake of the scientific revolution, growing numbers of non-Puritan settlers and African slaves, and increasing contacts with Native Americans. The representations of colonial body perceptions and illness experiences are often hidden in a broad textual archive and thus require "reading across" different texts and authors to analyze the positions and functions of the sick body in both medical
Beschreibung:1 online resource (409 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:3825374742
9783825374747