Book ID: CBB220589373

Textualizing Illness: Medicine and Culture in New England, 1620-1730 (2014)

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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 and cultural discourses. In the illness narratives surveyed here, medical issues - from actual practices to intellectual responses to diseases - illustrate how early American literature and society developed a regional distinctiveness while being embedded in transnational circuits of knowledge formation and cultural practices.

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Review Simon Finger (2015) Review of "Textualizing Illness: Medicine and Culture in New England, 1620-1730". American Historical Review (pp. 1474-1475). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Emanuele Stolfi
Merola, Valeria
Ryan, William John
González Espitia, Juan Carlos
De Liso, Daniela
Shuttleton, David
Concepts
Medicine and culture
Medicine and literature
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Medicine and society
Science and literature
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Early modern
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
England
New England (U.S.)
United States
Europe
Great Britain
Americas
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