Symptomatic Subjects : Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England . /

In the period just prior to medicine's modernity, England saw a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Julie Orlemanski's Symptomatic Subjects shows how late medieval English writers drew on the discourse of medicine to narrate anew the crossings--and the conflicts--between physiology and...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Orlemanski, Julie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Series:Alembics.
Subjects:
To 1500
Literature and medicine > England > History > To 1500.
Diseases > England > Causes and theories of causation > History > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Causation in literature.
Medicine, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval.
Causation.
History, Medieval
Literature, Medieval
Causality
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Causalité dans la littérature.
Médecine médiévale.
Littérature médiévale.
Causalité.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation.
English literature > Middle English.
Literature and medicine.
Mittelenglisch
Literatur
Medizin > Motiv
Körper > Motiv
United Kingdom
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. THINKING WITH PHISIK; Chapter 1. Imagining Etiology; Chapter 2. Cause, Authority, Sign, and Book; PART II. PLAYING WITH PHISIK; Chapter 3. Satire and Medical Materialism; Chapter 4. Embodying Causation in Exempla; PART III. EMPLOTTING PHISIK; Chapter 5. The Metaphysics of Phisik in the "Knight's Tale"; Chapter 6. Desire and Defacement in the Testament of Cresseid; PART IV. PERSONALIZING PHISIK; Chapter 7. Symptoms and the Signifying Condition in Hoccleve's Series; Chapter 8. From Noise to Narration in the Book of Margery Kempe; Coda Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments

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