Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

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Contents: Introduction: rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England, Jennifer C. Vaught Part 1 Reading the Instructive Language of the Body in the Middle Ages: Episcopal anatomies of the early Middle Ages, Lisi Oliver and Maria Mahoney 'This disfigured people': representations of sin as pathological bodily and mental affliction in Dante's Inferno XXIXa XXX, James C. Nohrnberg 'My body to warentea |': linguistic corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner, Laila Abdalla. Part 2 Imaginative Discourses of Sexuality, Delightful and Dangerous: Spenser's crowd of Cupids and the language of pleasure, William A. Oram Cordelia can't: rhetorics of reticence and (dis)ease in King Lear, Emma L.E. Rees. Part 3 Bodily Metaphors of Disease and Science in Renaissance England: Reckoning death: women searchers and the bills of mortality in early modern England, Richelle Munkhoff 'Revolving this will teach thee how to curse': a lesson in sublunary exhalation, Rebecca Totaro. Part 4 The Power of Linguistic Infection and Cure in Early Modern Literature and Medicine: Shakespeare and the irony of early modern disease metaphor and metonymy, William Spates Body of death: the Pauline inheritance in Donne's Sermons, Spenser's Maleger, and Milton's Sin and Death, Judith H. Anderson Subventing disease: anger, passions, and the non-naturals, Stephen Pender Selected bibliography Index.