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Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Publication: The Modern Language Review Publication Date: 01-OCT-03 Author: Edwards, Karen L.
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COPYRIGHT 2003 Modern Humanities Research Association
Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics. By MARGARET HEALY. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. xii+277 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-96399-7.
To that triumvirate of early modern studies--politics, religion, and literature--Margaret Healy has added medicine. Her study of the cultural meanings of disease in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England takes a dual approach to its subject: while analysing the ways in which various writers appropriate disease as a metaphor for the condition of the body politic, it refuses to lose sight of suffering human bodies and the period's representation of the physical...
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