Eve Salisbury

Gebundenes Buch

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry

Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague

Beschreibung

Focusing on late medieval literary works as well as medical treatises, plague tractates, and verse remedies, this book calls attention to a discourse that privileges illness narratives, strategies of self-care, and the voices of poets, patients, and practitioners.

Autor

Eve Salisbury is Professor of English, Emerita, Western Michigan University. She has edited four volumes for the Middle English Texts Series, authored numerous essays on medieval marriage and institutionally sanctioned violence and written a monograph on the representation of the child in the work of Geoffrey Chaucer (Chaucer and the Child). She is the co-founder of The Gower Project, co-editor of Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media, consulting editor of Comparative Drama, and member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781350249790
• ISBN-10: 1350249793
• Artikelnr.: 62647266