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In early modern medical texts, intense unfulfilled erotic desire is treated as a real and virulent disease. Classified as a species of melancholy with specific physical etiologies and cures, this condition shapes much of the period's writing. Lesel Dawson analyzes these literary representations of lovesickness in relation to medical ideas about desire and wider questions regarding gender and identity. This scholarly work explores how desire is believed to take root in the body and how gender roles are encoded and contested during courtship. Dawson examines the psychic pains and pleasures of frustrated passion, specifically looking at the relationship between women's lovesickness and broader social structures. This book is an essential resource for those studying the history of literary theory, medical history, and gender studies in early modern English literature.

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Published by Oxford University Press, this book provides a scholarly analysis of early modern medical texts and literature.

Lesel Dawson examines how intense erotic desire was classified as a species of melancholy with physical causes and cures.

The text explores how gender roles are encoded and contested within the context of courtship and identity.

This work investigates the relationship between women's lovesickness and the broader medical ideas of the era.

Readers can study the connection between physical etiologies of desire and the psychic pains of frustrated passion.

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Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0199266123
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 September 2008
Listed Since: 15 February 2008

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