Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political writing. Plays, pamphlets and political treatises of this period display an increasingly xenophobic tendency to attribute England's ills to 'foreign bodies' such as Jews, Catholics and witches, as well as treat their allegedly 'poisonous' features for the health of the body politic. Harris argues that this tendency resonates with two of the distinctive paradigms of Paracelsus' pharmacy which ...
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Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political writing. Plays, pamphlets and political treatises of this period display an increasingly xenophobic tendency to attribute England's ills to 'foreign bodies' such as Jews, Catholics and witches, as well as treat their allegedly 'poisonous' features for the health of the body politic. Harris argues that this tendency resonates with two of the distinctive paradigms of Paracelsus' pharmacy which also includes the notion that poison has a medicinal power. The emergence of these paradigms in early modern English political thought signals a decisive shift from Galenic humoral tradition towards twentieth-century politico-medical discourses of 'infection' and 'containment', which, like their early modern predecessors, make mysterious the domestic origins of social conflict and the operations of political authority.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Contains: Halftones. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Includes Halftones. Audience: Professional and scholarly. LCCN 97027247 Type of material Book Personal name Harris, Jonathan Gil. Main title Foreign bodies and the body politic: discourses of social pathology in early modern England / Jonathan Gil Harris. Published/Created Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Description xi, 197 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 0521594057 LC classification PR428. B63 H37 1998 LC Subjects English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism. Human body in literature. Literature and society--England--History--16th century. Literature and society--England--History--17th century. Politics and literature--Great Britain. Literature and medicine--England. Visitors, Foreign, in literature. Social problems in literature. Discourse analysis, Literary. Xenophobia--England--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-191) and index. Series Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture; 25 Dewey class no. 820.9/358 Geographic area code e-uk---e-uk-en
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