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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...

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Published in:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 4 - 26
Main Author: ROYCHOUDHURY, SUPARNA
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2012
Subjects:
Renaissance literature
Sonnets of Shakespeare, The (Poems : Shakespeare)
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Self-discrepancy
Materialism
Lust
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