Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
Cover of the book Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain by David Thorley, Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Author: David Thorley ISBN: 9781137593122
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Publication: August 24, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: David Thorley
ISBN: 9781137593122
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication: August 24, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social and religious frameworks by which illness was more commonly recorded and understood. The story that emerges is of illness written into personal manuscripts in prescriptive rather than original terms. This study uncovers the ways in which illness, so described, contributed to the self-patterning these texts were set up to perform.

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This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social and religious frameworks by which illness was more commonly recorded and understood. The story that emerges is of illness written into personal manuscripts in prescriptive rather than original terms. This study uncovers the ways in which illness, so described, contributed to the self-patterning these texts were set up to perform.

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