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Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Hardcover

Series: Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0754666212
ISBN13: 9780754666219
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 28 2009
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In this innovative and ambitious study, Bernadette Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine reverse the Cartesian conception of the dominance of the rational and propose instead a dramatic interconnection of body and mind. The author analyzes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well as contemporary medical compilations, to demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers fully anticipated current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.

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