MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aPR428.B63$bH37 1998
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100 1 $aHarris, Jonathan Gil.
245 10 $aForeign bodies and the body politic :$bdiscourses of social pathology in early modern England /$cJonathan Gil Harris.
260 $aCambridge, U.K. ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1998.
300 $axi, 197 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aCambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;$v25
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 176-191) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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 poisionous tongue of the witch and the word of God -- Conclusion: the persistence of the pathological body politic.
545 $aAuthor is an Ithaca College faculty member.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aBody, Human, in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aLiterature and medicine$zEngland$xHistory.
650 0 $aVisitors, Foreign, in literature.
650 0 $aSocial problems in literature.
650 0 $aDiscourse analysis, Literary.
650 0 $aXenophobia$zEngland$xHistory.
655 7 $aIthaca College authors.