Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820 / David E. Shuttleton.
Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820 / David E. Shuttleton.
Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820 / David E. Shuttleton.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Date
2007.
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N820.93561/2
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English
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xiii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : imagining smallpox -- 1. Contagion by conceit -- 2. 'What odious change ...?' : smallpox autopathography -- 3. Smallpox elegy -- 4. Sentimental smallpox -- 5. 'Beauty's enemy' and the disfigured woman -- 6. 'Enamel'd not deform'd' : manly disfigurements -- 7. 'Beauty's triumph' : inoc...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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England
Date Published
2007.
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Summary
"Smallpox was a much feared disease until modern times, responsible for many deaths worldwide and reaching epidemic proportions amongst the British population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the first substantial critical study of the literary representation of the disease and its victims between the Restoration and the develop...
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Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820 / David E. Shuttleton.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N820.93561/2
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74VKzOywmkzd
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052187209X (hbk.) :
9780521872096 (hbk.) :
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820.9356109033
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991023422999702626
