Rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England / edited by Jennifer C. Vaught.

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010], ©2010.

xiii, 243 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rhetorics of bodily disease and health in medieval and early modern England / Jennifer C. Vaught -- Reading the instructive language of the body in the Middle Ages -- Episcopal anatomies of the early Middle Ages / Lisi Oliver and Maria Mahoney -- This disfigured people: representations of sin as pathological bodily and mental affliction in Inferno / James C. Nohrnberg -- "My body to warente": linguistic corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner / Laila Abdalla -- Imaginative discourses of sexuality, delightful and dangerous -- Spenser's Crowd of cupids and the language of pleasure / William A. Oram -- Cordelia's can't : rhetorics of reticence and (dis)ease in King Lear / Emma L.E. Rees -- Bodily metaphors of disease and science in Renaissance England -- Reckoning death: women and the bills of mortality in early modern London / Richelle Munkhoff -- "Revolving this will teach thee how to curse": a lesson in sublunary exhalations / Rebecca Totaro -- The power of linguistic infection and cure in early modern literature and medicine -- Shakespeare and the irony of early modern metaphor and metonymy / William Spates -- Body of death: the Pauline inheritance in Donne's sermons, Spenser's Maleger, and Milton's Sin and death / Judith H. Anderson -- Subventing disease: anger, passions, and the non-naturals / Stephen Pender.