Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England

Ravenous Natures

By:

Alanna Skuse

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body – remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.

Author Biography:

Alanna Skuse is a scholar of early modern literature and history, who has lectured at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, UK. She has previously published on early modern treatments for cancer and on the uses of 'canker' in Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Release date NZ

October 28th, 2015

Author

Alanna Skuse

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Edition

1st ed. 2015

Illustrations

VIII, 219 p.

Pages

219

Series

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Dimensions

140x216x12

ISBN-13

9781137569196

Product ID

23046406

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