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Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain

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  • © 2016

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  1. David Thorley

    1. Independent scholar, London, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • David Thorley
    Pages 1-26

  3. Diaries

    • David Thorley
    Pages 27-72

  4. Autobiography

    • David Thorley
    Pages 73-111

  5. Letters

    • David Thorley
    Pages 113-158

  6. Poetry

    • David Thorley
    Pages 159-202

  7. Conclusion

    • David Thorley
    Pages 203-219

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 221-231
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About this book

This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social and religious frameworks by which illness was more commonly recorded and understood. The story that emerges is of illness written into personal manuscripts in prescriptive rather than original terms. This study uncovers the ways in which illness, so described, contributed to the self-patterning these texts were set up to perform.

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  • Independent scholar, London, UK

    David Thorley

About the author

David Thorley received his doctorate from Durham University, UK. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Durham.

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