Disease and death in eighteenth-century literature and culture fashioning the unfashionable / Allan Ingram, Leigh Wetherall Dickson, editors.

Other author Ingram, Allan.
Other author Dickson, Leigh Wetherall.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Descriptionviii, 290 pages ; 22 cm.
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Portion of title Disease and death in 18th-century literature and culture : fashioning the unfashionable
SeriesPalgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine. ^A1273268
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Fashioning the Unfashionable / Leigh Wetherall Dickson -- pt. I Ennui -- 2. `[Factitious [Distress' or Veritable Woe?: The Problem of Eighteenth-Century Ennui / Heather Meek -- 3. `What is Fashionably Termed Ennui': Maria Edgeworth Represents the Clinically Bored / Jane Taylor -- pt. II Diseases of Sexuality -- 4. The a la Mode Disease: Syphilis and Temporality / Emily Cock -- 5. Dean Swift on the Great Pox: Or, The Satirist as Physician / Hermann J. Real -- 6. Of Fribblers and Fumblers: Fashioning Male Impotence in the Long Eighteenth Century / Kirsten Juhas -- pt. III Infectious Diseases -- 7. Fashioning Unfashionable Plague: Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year (1722) / Helene Dachez -- 8. How Small is Small? Small Pox, Large Presence / Allan Ingram -- 9. `Halfe Dead: and rotten at the Coare: my Lord!': Fashionable and Unfashionable Consumption, from Early Modern to Enlightenment / Clark Lawlor -- pt. IV Fashioning Death -- 10. Death by Inoculation: The Fashioning of Mortality in Eighteenth-Century Smallpox Pamphlets / Kelly McGuire -- 11. Fashion Victim: High Society, Sociability and Suicide in Georgiana Cavendish's The Sylph / Leigh Wetherall Dickson -- 12. `Alas, poor Yorick!': Jonathan Swift, Madness and Fashionable Science / Helen Deutsch.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-271) and index.
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LCCN 2016948380
ISBN9781137597175 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN1137597178 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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