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Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic : Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England - Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Author: Jonathan Gil Harris
This book examines the overlap between early modern English attitudes to disease and to society and explores the cultural meaning of the image of the body at the interfaces of medicine, morality and politics in Tudor and early Stuart England. In particular, it demonstrates how the body politic's metaphorical "cankers" and "plagues" were increasi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521594059
ISBN-10: 0521594057
Publication Date: 5/28/1998
Pages: 212
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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