Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England - Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture - Harris, Jonathan Gil (Ithaca College, New York) - Books - Cambridge University Press - 9780521594059 - May 7, 1998
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Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England - Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

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This book examines the overlap between early modern English attitudes to disease and society and explores the cultural meaning of the image of the body. One can detect the origins of not only modern xenophobic attitudes to foreigners as carriers of disease, but also 'germ' theory in general.


216 pages, 2 b/w illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released May 7, 1998
ISBN13 9780521594059
Publishers Cambridge University Press
Pages 216
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 16 mm   ·   430 g
Language English  

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