title: Women, writing, and healing: rhetoric, religion, and illness in An Collins, "Eliza," and Anna Trapnel.
abstract: Focusing on An Collins, "Eliza," and Anna Trapnel, this essay considers the interconnections of mind, body, and spirit in the mid-seventeenth century. Given their gender and their era, that the writing of all three serves as a means of expressing religious devotion is not surprising--what may be, however, is the role of illness as both catalyst for and topic of work that is also deeply and consciously rhetorical. Articulating what may be as much illness enabled as it is divinely inspired, their work further suggests a more than merely intuitive sense of language's capacity to heal body as well as soul.
authors: Department of English, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3L 2G9, Canada, lyn.bennett@dal.ca.
authors: Lyn
authors: L
authors: Bennett
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D004739:England; D029221:Faith Healing / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D055809:Illness Behavior; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D029181:Spirituality; D014930:Women / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D014956:Writing / Q000266:history*
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