Writing illness and identity in seventeenth-century Britain. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Thorley.
• Authors: Thorley, David, 1979-
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction ; The Medical Context; Boyle; Hooke; Pepys; Emergent Selves; Suspicious Selves; Ailing Selves; Illness and€Life-Writing; Notes; Chapter 2: Diaries; Mary Rich; Oliver Heywood; Ralph Josselin; Margaret Hoby; Robert Hooke; Samuel Jeake; Notes; Chapter 3: Autobiography ; That Monster Self: Alice Hayes and€John Donne; Mary Rich; Anne Halkett; Alice Thornton; Richard Baxter; Roger North; Notes; Chapter 4: Letters; I; The Twysden Papers; Boyle's Letters to€Katherine Jones; Anne Conway; Donne's Letters To€Anne Cockayne; II. Edward Lhwyd's Letters to€ListerBenjamin Furly's Letters to€Locke; Milton's Letter to€Philaras; Notes; Chapter 5: Poetry; Commonplace Books, Miscellanies and€Personal Notebooks; Henry Wotton's Hymn in€a€Night of€Sickness; Edward Lapworth's Deathbed Verses; Gilbert Frevile's Commonplace Book; Poetry in€Life-Writing; Alathea Bethell; Elizabeth Freke; Katherine Austen; Poetry as€Life-Writing; Nicholas Billingsley; An Collins; Hester Pulter; Donne's 'Hymne to€God My God in€My Sicknes'; Notes; Chapter 6: Conclusion ; Notes; Select Bibliography; Manuscripts; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources.
• Publisher Details: London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 231 pages.)
• Subjects: 828.40809/3561; Literature; Diseases and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; British literature; Fiction; Diseases and literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction -- General; Literary Criticism -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Fiction & related items; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Great Britain; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137593122; 1137593121
• Related ISBNs: 9781137593115; 1137593113; 9781137693122
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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