Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) |
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Author:
Jonathan Gil Harris
By Cambridge University Press
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Product Description
This book examines the overlap between early modern English attitudes to disease and to society and explores the cultural meaning of the image of the body at the interfaces of medicine, morality and politics in Tudor and early Stuart England. In particular, it demonstrates how the body politic's metaphorical "cankers" and "plagues" were increasingly attributed to allegedly pathological "foreign bodies" such as Jews, Catholics, and witches. One can glimpse the origins of not only modern xenophobic attitudes to foreigners as carriers of disease, but also "germ" theory in general. The pathological and the political thus have a long-standing, problematic, and mostly neglected relationship, the prehistory of which this book seeks to uncover.
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Jonathan Gil Harris has done it again!, 2006-12-28
This is more tasty and masterful stuff from a man at the very top of his game. Never before has the overlap between early modern English attitudes to disease and society been so trenchantly examined. Only JGH could render the interfaces of medicine, morality and politics in Tudor and early Stuart England with such startling clarity, and yet, at the same time, with such verve and pizazz. Bravo Professor, and Oprah, take note: He's easy on the eye, as well as handy with the quill!
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 820.9358
EAN: 9780521594059
ISBN: 0521594057
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: 1998-05-28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press |
