Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England

Jennifer C. Vaught is Jean-Jacques and Aurore Labbé Fournet / Board of Regents Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

Introduction, Jennifer C.Vaught; part01 Reading the Instructive Language of the Body in the Middle Ages; Chapter 1 Episcopal Anatomies of the Early Middle Ages, Lisi Oliver, Maria Mahoney; Chapter 2 “This Disfigured People”: Representations of Sin as Pathological Bodily and Mental Affliction in Dante’s Inferno XXIX–XXX, James C. Nohrnberg; Chapter 3 “My body to warente…”: Linguistic Corporeality in Chaucer’s Pardoner, Laila Abdalla; part02 Imaginative Discourses of Sexuality, Delightful and Dangerous; Chapter 4, William A. Oram; Chapter 5 Cordelia’s Can’t: Rhetorics of Reticence and (Dis)ease in King Lear, Emma L. E. Rees; part03 Bodily Metaphors of Disease and Science in Renaissance England; Chapter 6 Reckoning Death: Women Searchers and the Bills of Mortality in Early Modern London, Richelle Munkhoff; Chapter 7, Rebecca Totaro; part04 The Power of Linguistic Infection and Cure in Early Modern Literature and Medicine; Chapter 8 Shakespeare and the Irony of Early Modern Disease Metaphor and Metonymy, William Spates; Chapter 9 Body of Death: The Pauline Inheritance in Donne’s Sermons, Spenser’s Maleger, and Milton’s Sin and Death, Judith H. Anderson; Chapter 10 Subventing Disease: Anger, Passions, and the Non-Naturals, Stephen Pender;