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Author:

Peterson, Kaara L.

Title:

Popular medicine, hysterical disease, and social controversy in Shakespeare's England / by Kaara Peterson.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

viii, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Hysteria in literature.
Women patients--England--History--16th century.
Women patients--England--History--17th century.
Literature and medicine--England--History--16th century.
Literature and medicine--England--History--17th century.
Medicine--England--History--16th century.
Medicine--England--History--17th century.
Medicine in Literature--England.
History of Medicine--England.
History, 16th Century--England.
History, 17th Century--England.
Hysteria--history--England.
Patients--history--England.
Social Conditions--history--England.
Women--history--England.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: historica passio: the fit of history -- Early modern medicine and the case history of King Lear -- "So troubled with the mother": dying to live -- "The ink of lovers": revenge tragedy's blood letters -- "Mocked with art" and playing dead: the theatrics of hysterica passio -- Epilogue: Hermione's legacy, or hysteria after 1700.

Series:

Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.

ISBN:

0754698238 (ebook : alk. paper)
9780754698234 (ebook : alk. paper)
0754669939 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780754669937 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)465190212

LCCN:

2009045503

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)