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OverviewTextualizing Illness investigates how colonial New England writings represented and contributed to the meaning-endowment of diseases. It explores how the textual configurations of illnesses changed in the wake of the scientific revolution, growing numbers of non-Puritan settlers and African slaves, and increasing contacts with Native Americans. The representations of colonial body perceptions and illness experiences are often hidden in a broad textual archive and thus require reading across different texts and authors to analyze the positions and functions of the sick body in both medical and cultural discourses. In the illness narratives surveyed here, medical issues - from actual practices to intellectual responses to diseases - illustrate how early American literature and society developed a regional distinctiveness while being embedded in transnational circuits of knowledge formation and cultural practices. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marc PriewePublisher: Universitatsverlag Winter Imprint: Universitatsverlag Winter Volume: 249 Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.30cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9783825363628ISBN 10: 3825363627 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 01 July 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |