Foreign bodies and the body politic : discourses of social pathology in early modern England / Jonathan Gil Harris.
1998
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Title
Foreign bodies and the body politic : discourses of social pathology in early modern England / Jonathan Gil Harris.
Created/published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description
xi, 197 p. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 25
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-191) and index.
Contents
Introduction: functionalist organicism and the origin of the body politic
pt. 1. Pathologizing the body politic. "Enter at the least pore": early modern medicine and bodily infiltration. "Ev'ry poison good for some use": the poisonous political pharmacy and its discontents
pt. 2. Handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Public enemas: the disjunctions of the excremental Jewish pharmakon. "To stop her mouth with Truths authority": the poisonous tongue of the witch and the word of God
Conclusion: the persistence of the pathological body politic.
pt. 1. Pathologizing the body politic. "Enter at the least pore": early modern medicine and bodily infiltration. "Ev'ry poison good for some use": the poisonous political pharmacy and its discontents
pt. 2. Handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Public enemas: the disjunctions of the excremental Jewish pharmakon. "To stop her mouth with Truths authority": the poisonous tongue of the witch and the word of God
Conclusion: the persistence of the pathological body politic.
Series
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 25.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.
Call number
PR428.B63 H37 1998