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Shakespeare's Medical Language: A Dictionary
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
Shakespeare's Medical Language: A Dictionary
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Sujata Iyengar
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Series | Continuum Shakespeare Dictionaries |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:432 | Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9780826491336
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Classifications | Dewey:822.33 |
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Audience | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Imprint |
Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Publication Date |
7 April 2011 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
A dictionary that includes ailments, general medical concepts and cures and therapies in Shakespeare, but also body parts, bodily functions, and entries on 'the pathological body' taking into account recent critical work on the early modern body.
Author Biography
Sujata Iyengar is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Georgia. She is author of Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
ReviewsIt is one that any Shakespearian scholar or any student of early modern medical culture would be happy to have on the shelf. -- R. Marl Jackson, University of Alabama * The Sixteenth Century Journal * [A] very useful collection of medical-related terms in Shakespeare's oeuvre, from Abhorson to zany. -- Maria Vaccarella, King's College London * Memoria di Shakespeare *
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