Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England

Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN-10
0230101097
ISBN-13
9780230101098
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2009-08-31
Publisher
Springer
Author
S. Covington

Description

Wounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England explores the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness in mid-seventeenth century English literature. This book demonstrates the ways in which writers attempted to represent the politically and religiously fractured state of the time and re-imagined the nation through language and metaphor in the process. By examining the creative permutations of the wound metaphor, Covington argues for the centrality of the charged imagery, and language itself, in shaping the self-representations of an age.

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