John Donne's Language of Disease

Conventions and Notes

Introduction: Exploring Donne's Dynamic Comparisons

PART I

1 More Than Skin Deep: Dissecting Donne's Imagery of Humours

2 Cures and Currency in Donne's Letters to Patrons

3 Swollen Desires: Dropsy and Donne's Writing

PART II

4 'We May Have Recourse': Describing Illness in Donne's Devotions

5 'Sinfull Inough to Infect': Donne's Imagery of Contagion

6 'Holy Perfume': The Fragrance of Cures in Donne's Sermons

Conclusion: 'How Lame a Picture': Depicting the Sick Body

Bibliography

Index

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Sermon;Poetry;Illness;Literature;Language;John Donne;Donne;Disease;Contagion;Bumke;Achsah Guibbory;Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum;Donne's Verse Letters;Vice Versa;Early Modern Medicine;Glossa Ordinaria;Donne's Holy Sonnet;Verse Letters;Holy Sonnets;Donne's Reference;Donne's Sermon;Sir Henry Goodyer;Donne Writes;Sponge;Violate;Eloquent Blood;Peccant Humour;Donne's Verse;Donne's Speakers;Imbalanced Humours;Donne's Devotions;Spotted Fever;Humoral Complexions;Fourth Meditation;Non-invasive Diagnostic Methods