Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England
| By: | Vaught, Jennifer C, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754669487 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409476238 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science, and medicine in England and its surrounding European context.
In keeping with the critical trend over the past decade to foreground the matter of the body and the emotions, these essays track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health