Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2016
Authors:	David Thorley
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	231
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-95515-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	1-349-95515-9
Barcode:	9781349955152

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