Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary

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Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive, and complex telling of our understanding, perception, and experience of and through our bodies. Ple

Updated second edition: “A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions.” —Sociology of Heath and Illn

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