Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England (inbunden)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Early Modern Literature in History
Antal sidor
277
Utgivningsdatum
2016-03-08
Upplaga
16001
Förlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensioner
216 x 140 x 18 mm
Vikt
481 g
ISBN
9781137471550

Civic and Medical Worlds in Early Modern England

Performing Barbery and Surgery

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2016-03-08
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Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England. Focusing on the prolific figures of the barber, surgeon and barber-surgeon, the author explores what it meant to the early modern population for a group of practitioners to be associated with both the trade guilds and an emerging professional medical world. The book uncovers the differences and cross-pollinations between barbers and surgeons' practices which play out across the literature: we learn not only about their cultural, civic, medical and occupational histories but also about how we should interpret patterns in language, name choice, performance, materiality, acoustics and semiology in the period. The investigations prompt new readings of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Beaumont, among others. And with chapters delving into early modern representations of medical instruments, hairiness, bloodletting procedures, waxy or infected ears, wart removals and skeletons, readers will find much of the contribution of this book is in its detail, which brings its subject to life.
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Eleanor Decamp completed her doctorate in English Literature at the University of Oxford, UK. This is her first monograph. She is co-convenor of The Blood Project, an investigation into Medieval and Renaissance theories of blood.