John Donne’s Language of Disease - Eloquent Blood

John Donne's Language of Disease reveals the influence of medical knowledge -- a rapidly changing field in early modern England -- on Donne's thinking and writing.

List of contents

Conventions and Notes
Introduction: Exploring Donne's Dynamic Comparisons
PART I
1 More Than Skin Deep: Dissecting Donne's Imagery of Humours
2 Cures and Currency in Donne's Letters to Patrons
3 Swollen Desires: Dropsy and Donne's Writing
PART II
4 'We May Have Recourse': Describing Illness in Donne's Devotions
5 'Sinfull Inough to Infect': Donne's Imagery of Contagion
6 'Holy Perfume': The Fragrance of Cures in Donne's Sermons
Conclusion: 'How Lame a Picture': Depicting the Sick Body
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Alison Bumke is Assistant Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham.

Summary

John Donne’s Language of Disease reveals the influence of medical knowledge -- a rapidly changing field in early modern England -- on Donne’s thinking and writing.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Bumke
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032448794
• ISBN: 978-1-032-44879-4
• No. of pages: 164
• Weight: 310 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Literature: history & criticism