Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Book

This book examines the overlap between early modern English attitudes to disease and to society and explores the cultural meaning of the image of the body at the interfaces of medicine, morality and politics in Tudor and early Stuart England. In particular, he demonstrates how the body politic's metaphorical 'cankers' and 'plagues' were increasingly attributed to allegedly pathological 'foreign bodies' such as Jews, Catholics, and witches. One can glimpse the origins of not only modern xenophobic attitudes to foreigners as carriers of disease, but also 'germ' theory in general.Read More

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  • 0521594057
  • 9780521594059
  • Jonathan Gil Harris
  • 7 May 1998
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 216
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