Constructions of cancer in Early Modern England, 1580-1720: ravenous natures
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 69944
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137487537
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 228pp. monograph deploys research into a range of contemporary literary texts, scientific and medical textbooks and practitioners' casebooks, together with personal testimony, in order to discover the parameters of thought about cancer at this time. The book, which took 5 years’ research, covers a broad timespan and geographical reach, was supported by the Wellcome Trust. In presenting transhistorical continuities between early modern and our modern perceptions, the book raises empirically-founded questions about the figuration of medical practitioners in literature, and focuses feminist theory in order to research the particular associations of the disease with women and the female body.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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