Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England
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early modern medicine
English Renaissance drama
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gendered disease concepts
Green Sickness
Honest Whore
hysteria in early modern literature
Hysterica Passio
Hysterical Ailments
Hysterical Disease
Hysterical Illnesses
Hysterical Pathologies
Hysterical Suffocation
Jacobean Tragedy
Lear's Lines
Lear’s Lines
literary representations illness
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Tis Pity
Titus Andronicus
tragedy
uterine
Uterine Ailments
Uterine Pathologies
uterine pathology
Winter's Tale
Winter’s Tale
Women's Melancholy
Women's Pathologies
Women’s Melancholy
Women’s Pathologies
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- ISBN 9781138272125
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England's significant and sustained interest in the hysterical diseases of women. Kaara L. Peterson assembles a fascinating collection of medical materials to support her discussion of contemporary debates about varieties of uterine pathologies and the implications of these debates for our understanding of drama's representation of hysterica passio cases in particular, among other hysterical maladies. An important aspect of the author's approach is to restore, with all its nuances, the debates created by early modern medical writers over attempts to define the boundaries and resonances of hysterical ailments, which Peterson argues have been largely erased or elided by historicist criticism, including scholarship overly focused on melancholy. One of the main goals of the book is to stress the centrality of gendered concepts of disease for the period and to reveal a whole catalog of early modern literary strategies for representing women's illnesses. Among the medical works discussed are Edward Jorden's central text A Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) and contemporary plays, including Shakespeare's Pericles, Othello, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale; Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; and Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois.
Kaara L. Peterson is Associate Professor of English Literature at Miami University, USA. She is working on a new project about the portrayal of virginity in early modern literature and art.
