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Author Priewe, Marc, author.

Title Textualizing illness : medicine and culture in New England, 1620-1730 / Marc Priewe.

Publication Info. Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014.
©2014
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Description 1 online resource (409 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series American Studies ; Volume 249
American studies (Munich, Germany) ; Volume 249.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Mobile Pathogens, Traveling Knowledge; 2. Writing Cures: John Winthrop Jr.'s Epistolary Healing Networks; 3. Scripting Medicine and Gender; 4. Conversion and the Rhetoric of Disease; 5. Poetic Responses to Illness; 6. Thresholds of Modernity: Cotton Mather's Medical Writings; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary 'Textualizing 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.
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Subject Diseases -- Social aspects -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Diseases -- Social aspects.
New England.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Diseases -- New England -- 17th century -- Terminology -- History.
Diseases.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Other Form: Print version: Priewe, Marc. Textualizing illness : medicine and culture in New England, 1620-1730. Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter, ©2014 408 pages American studies (Munich, Germany) ; Volume 249 9783825363628
ISBN 3825374742 (e-book)
9783825374747 (electronic book)
9783825363628

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