Flesh and Spirit
An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing
This anthology makes accessible to readers ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period. Providing a detailed and engaging introduction to the issues confronted when studying women's writing from this era, the anthology also examines female interpretations of illness, exploring beliefs that toothache and miscarriage could be God's punishments, but also, paradoxically, that such terrible suffering could be understood as proof that a believer was eternally beloved. The extracts in the anthology explore h…
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Weitere Autoren: Ziomek, Anna / Read, Sara
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-1100-5
- EAN: 9781526111005
- Produktnummer: 27907206
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Rachel Adcock, Sara Read and Anna Ziomek all teach in the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University
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