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 Info | London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016] |
| Description | viii, 290 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Portion of title | Disease and death in 18th-century literature and culture : fashioning the unfashionable |
| Series | Palgrave 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-271) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016948380 |
| ISBN | 9781137597175 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1137597178 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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