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Author |
: Bryon Lee Grigsby |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415968224 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415968225 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature by : Bryon Lee Grigsby
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Byron Lee Grigsby |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2004-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135883836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135883831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature by : Byron Lee Grigsby
Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature examines three diseases--leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis--to show how doctors, priests, and literary authors from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the transmission of contagious diseases, doctors and priests saw epidemic diseases as a punishment sent by God for human transgression. Accordingly, their job was to properly read sickness in relation to the sin. By examining different readings of specific illnesses, this book shows how the social construction of epidemic diseases formed a kind of narrative wherein man attempts to take the control of the disease out of God's hands by connecting epidemic diseases to the sins of carnality.
Author |
: Rebecca Totaro |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2021-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820705293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820705292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Plague in Print by : Rebecca Totaro
In The Plague in Print, Rebecca Totaro takes the reader into the world of plague-riddled Elizabethan England, documenting the development of distinct subgenres related to the plague and providing unprecedented access to important original sources of early modern plague writing. Totaro elucidates the interdisciplinary nature of plague writing, which raises religious, medical, civic, social, and individual concerns in early modern England. Each of the primary texts in the collection offers a glimpse into a particular subgenre of plague writing, beginning with Thomas Moulton’s plague remedy and prayers published by the Church of England and devoted to the issue of the plague. William Bullein’s A Dialogue, both pleasant and pietyful, a work that both addresses concerns related to the plague and offers humorous literary entertainment, exemplifies the multilayered nature of plague literature. The plague orders of Queen Elizabeth I highlight the community-wide attempts to combat the plague and deal with its manifold dilemmas. And after a plague bill from the Corporation of London, the collection ends with Thomas Dekker’s The Wonderful Year, which illustrates plague literature as it was fully formed, combining attitudes toward the plague from both the Elizabethan and Stuart periods. These writings offer a vivid picture of important themes particular to plague literature in England, providing valuable insight into the beliefs and fears of those who suffered through bubonic plague while illuminating the cultural significance of references to the plague in the more familiar early modern literature by Spenser, Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, and others. As a result, The Plague in Print will be of interest to students and scholars in a number of fields, including sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, cultural studies, medical humanities, and the history of medicine.
Author |
: Rebecca Totaro |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2016-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317021315 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317021312 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Plague Epic in Early Modern England by : Rebecca Totaro
The Plague Epic in Early Modern England: Heroic Measures, 1603-1721 presents together, for the first time, modernized versions of ten of the most poignant of plague poems in the English language - each composed in heroic verse and responding to the urgent need to justify the ways of God in times of social, religious, and political upheaval. Showcasing unusual combinations of passion and restraint, heart-rending lamentation and nation-building fervor, these poems function as literary memorials to the plague-time fallen. In an extended introduction, Rebecca Totaro makes the case that these poems belong to a distinct literary genre that she calls the 'plague epic.' Because the poems are formally and thematically related to Milton's great epics Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, this volume represents a rare discovery of previously unidentified sources of great value for Milton studies and scholarly research into the epic, didactic verse, cultural studies of the seventeenth century, illness as metaphor, and interdisciplinary approaches to illness, natural disaster, trauma, and memory.
Author |
: Rebecca Carol Noel Totaro |
Publisher |
: Penn State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015060894758 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suffering in Paradise by : Rebecca Carol Noel Totaro
In Suffering in Paradise, Rebecca Totaro provides a unique and timely discussion of the bubonic plague as it shaped Literary Studies in England from 1500 through the first half of the eighteenth century. Within the experience and accounts of bubonic plague, men and women found their own understanding of the body, of the human relationship with nature, and of the degree to which they had faith in their nation and their God. An early modern writer's reading of the plague shows us in detail what he or she believes to be the parameters within which life is lived. Focusing on the broadest of these parameters, Totaro examines hope and despair as displayed within a range of imaginary realms designed to include and control the bubonic plague. Each of the works in this study--Thomas More's Utopia, William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis, Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World, and John Milton's Paradise Lost--provides literary and English answers that cohere in stunning form and resonate today.
Author |
: M. Healy |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2001-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230510647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230510647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England by : M. Healy
How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent symbol of pathology? Ranging from the Reformation through the English Civil War, Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England is a unique study of a fascinating cultural imaginary of 'disease' and its political consequences. Healy's original approach illuminates the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, Dekker, Heywood and others.
Author |
: Ernest B. Gilman |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2009-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226294117 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226294110 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plague Writing in Early Modern England by : Ernest B. Gilman
During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide range of responses to these epidemics—sermons, medical tracts, pious exhortations, satirical pamphlets, and political commentary—Plague Writing in Early Modern England brings to life the many and complex ways Londoners made sense of such unspeakable devastation. Ernest B. Gilman argues that the plague writing of the period attempted unsuccessfully to rationalize the catastrophic and that its failure to account for the plague as an instrument of divine justice fundamentally threatened the core of Christian belief. Gilman also trains his critical eye on the works of Jonson, Donne, Pepys, and Defoe, which, he posits, can be more fully understood when put into the context of this century-long project to “write out” the plague. Ultimately, Plague Writing in Early Modern England is more than a compendium of artifacts of a bygone era; it holds up a distant mirror to reflect our own condition in the age of AIDS, super viruses, multidrug resistant tuberculosis, and the hovering threat of a global flu pandemic.
Author |
: Kathleen Miller |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2017-07-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137510570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137510579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England by : Kathleen Miller
This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and simultaneously was impacted by the events of the plague. This book examines the role of print and manuscript cultures on representations of the disease through micro-histories and case studies of writing from that time, interpreting the place of these media and the construction of authorship during the outbreak. The macabre history of plague in early modern England largely ended with the Great Plague of London, and the miscellany of plague writings that responded to the epidemic forms the subject of this book.
Author |
: Lisa Hopkins |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2023-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526159915 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526159910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poison on the early modern English stage by : Lisa Hopkins
Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is one of a number of sinister uses of plants which comment on both the loss of horticultural knowledge resulting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and also the many new arrivals in English gardens through travel, trade, and attempts at colonisation. The fact that Old Hamlet was asleep reflects unease about soporifics troubling the distinction between sleep and death; pouring poison into the ear smuggles in the contemporary fear of informers; and it is difficult to prove. This book explores poisoning in early modern plays, the legal and epistemological issues it raises, and the cultural work it performs, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender, and humans’ relationship to the environment.
Author |
: Eve Salisbury |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2022-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350249813 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350249815 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry by : Eve Salisbury
Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the “Great Mortality”, this book examines the storytelling practices of poets, patients, and physicians in the midst of a medieval public health crisis and demonstrates how literary narratives enable us to see a kinship between poetry and the healing arts. Looking at how we can learn to diagnose a text as if we were diagnosing a body, Salisbury provides new insights into how we can recuperate the voices of those afflicted by illness in medieval texts when we have no direct testimony. She considers how we interpret stories told by patients in narratives mediated by others, ways that women factor into the shaping of a medical canon, how medical writing intersects with religious belief and memorial practices governed by the Church, and ways that regimens of health benefit a population in the throes of an epidemic.