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

by Jennifer C. Vaught

Book Overview

Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113826606X
• ISBN13: 9781138266063
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"