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- Title
Scurvy Vapors and the Devil's Claw: Religion and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Women's Melancholy.
- Authors
Hodgkin, Katherine
- Abstract
This article discusses women's experiences of melancholy and mental illness during the 17th century. Particular focus is given to the religious aspects of mental illness. According to the author, some women were able to self-diagnose melancholy and to engage with the disease as part of a spiritual or intellectual struggle. Details on manuscript accounts about Joan Drake and Dionys Fitzherbert, two women believed to suffer from the disease, are also presented.
- Subjects
MENTAL depression; MELANCHOLY; MENTAL illness &; religion; WOMEN'S history; DRAKE, Joan; FITZHERBERT, Dionys, 1580-1641; WOMEN'S mental health; SEVENTEENTH century
- Publication
Studies in the Literary Imagination, 2011, Vol 44, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0039-3819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sli.2011.0011