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Writing as Medication in Early Modern France: Literary Consciousness and Medical Culture

Writing as Medication in Early Modern France: Literary Consciousness and Medical Culture

Heitsch, Dorothea

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Series: Regensburger Beitrage Zur Gender-Forschung, Book 9

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 3825367142
ISBN13: 9783825367145
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter Gmbh Heidelberg
Published: Jul 21 2017
Pages: 261
Language: English
In this study, the author examines fifteenth- to seventeenth-century French authors who treat writing as a process of medication and whose literary production effectively yields a therapeutic substance. Through reference to Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Ficino, and advocates of alternatives to Western medicine such as John Mesue and Leone Ebreo, these writers emphasize the material/gendered soul and the role of the body in cognitive functions, illustrating knowledge as a result of physical interaction. The study explores Helisenne de Crenne alongside the 'pneumo-physiology' of Galen and the 'dolce stil novo', Rabelaisian anatomy together with the anti-Arabist Champier, and debates among natural philosophical poets on the transmigration of souls. The author also considers Marie de Gournay in relation to Juan Huarte's humoral theory and Jean d'Espagnet's alchemical philosophy, as well as Michel de Montaigne's interest in Jacques Dubois's Arab-influenced approaches to medicine.

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