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'I am sailing to my port, uh! uh! uh! uh!': The Pathologies of Transmigration in Volpone

Literature and medicine, 2001, Vol.20 (2), p.109-132 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © 2001 The Johns Hopkins University Press. ;Copyright Johns Hopkins University Press Fall 2001 ;ISSN: 0278-9671 ;ISSN: 1080-6571 ;EISSN: 1080-6571 ;DOI: 10.1353/lm.2001.0020 ;PMID: 11817203

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Title:
'I am sailing to my port, uh! uh! uh! uh!': The Pathologies of Transmigration in Volpone
Author: Harris, Jonathan Gil
Subjects: 1600-1699 ; Aristotle ; Bombast von Hohenheim, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus (Paracelsus) (1493-1541) ; Disease ; Disease Transmission, Infectious ; diseases ; Diseases in literature ; Disorders ; Drama ; Drugs ; Drugs in literature ; Early Modern English ; Economics ; English as an international language ; English literature ; Humans ; Illnesses ; international trade ; Jonson, Ben ; Jonson, Ben (1573-1637) ; Jonson, Ben,?-1637 ; Medicine ; Medicine in Literature ; metempsychosis ; Pathology ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Philosophy ; Pythagoras (570?-490 BC) ; Travel ; Volpone
Is Part Of: Literature and medicine, 2001, Vol.20 (2), p.109-132
Description: Jonson's dramatic treatment of luxury foreign medicines, I shall argue, demands to be interpreted in the light of early modern English economic debates about international trade and domestic protectionism, within which the comparative merits of imported and native drugs played a crucial role. In the process, Volpone not only shows how medical discourse shaped early modern conceptions of national economy; it also brings to partial visibility the mercantile coordinates of what has been widely regarded as the most significant epistemic shift in seventeenth-century medical science: the eclipse of the old Galenic/Aristotelian cosmology of qualities, elements, and humors by the new mechanistic philosophy of quantifiable matter.4 I. Metempsychotic Episodes Near the beginning of the play, Volpone's household grotesques stage an entertainment penned by his parasite, Mosca.
Publisher: United States: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0278-9671
ISSN: 1080-6571
EISSN: 1080-6571
DOI: 10.1353/lm.2001.0020
PMID: 11817203
Source: MEDLINE
ProQuest Central

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'I am sailing to my port, uh! uh! uh! uh!': The Pathologies of Transmigration in Volpone

Copyright © 2001 The Johns Hopkins University Press. ;Copyright Johns Hopkins University Press Fall 2001 ;ISSN: 0278-9671 ;ISSN: 1080-6571 ;EISSN: 1080-6571 ;DOI: 10.1353/lm.2001.0020 ;PMID: 11817203

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