Bennett Lyn
Department of English, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3L 2G9, Canada,
J Med Humanit. 2015 Jun;36(2):157-70. doi: 10.1007/s10912-015-9328-6.
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.
本文聚焦于安·柯林斯、“伊丽莎”和安娜·特拉普内尔，探讨了17世纪中叶思想、身体和精神之间的相互联系。鉴于她们的性别和所处时代，这三人的作品都成为表达宗教虔诚的一种方式并不奇怪——然而，可能令人惊讶的是，疾病在作品中既是创作的催化剂又是主题，而这些作品在深度和自觉性上都具有很强的修辞性。她们的作品阐明了疾病可能既是神启的，也是由疾病自身引发的，进一步表明了一种不仅仅是直觉的认识，即语言具有治愈身体和灵魂的能力。
