Illness and Literature in the Low Countries

From the Middle Ages until the 21st Century. Edited by Jaap Grave, Rick Honings and Bettina Noak.

This collection offers fourteen articles which all highlight the relation between disease and literature. It entails an overview of Dutch-language research in this field, whereby the literary and cultural functions of medical knowledge and the poetics of medical and literary writing are in the focus. With contributions by Gerard Bouwmeester, Mark G. van Vledder, Hans de Waardt, Olga van Marion et al. 278 Seiten mit 10 Abb., gebunden (V&R unipress 2016) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear