Forswearing Fever: Medicine, Materialism, and Shakespeare's Sonnet 147.
This article considers how changes in early modern medical discourse and materialist philosophy influenced conceptions of subjectivity in Renaissance literature. he discussion is framed using Shakespeare's sonnet 147, "My love is as a fever," which exposes the discrepancy between the self and the bo...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 4 - 26 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2012
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