Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable
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Beschreibung
Introduction: Fashioning the Unfashionable; Allan Ingram and Leigh Wetherall Dickson.- PART I: ENNUI.- 1. '[F]ictitious [D]istress' or Veritable Woe?: The Problem of Eighteenth-Century Ennui; Heather Meek.- 2. 'What is fashionably termed ennui': Maria Edgeworth Represents the Clinically Bored; Jane Taylor.- PART II: DISEASE OF SEXUALITY.- 3. Dean Swift on the Great Pox: or, The Satirist as Physician; Hermann J. Real.- 4. The à la Mode Disease: Syphilis and Temporality; Emily Cock.- 5. Of Fribblers and Fumblers: Fashioning Male Impotence in the Long Eighteenth Century; Kirsten Juhas.- PART III: INFECTIOUS DISEASES.- 6. Fashioning Unfashionable Plague: Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year (1722); Hélène Dachez.- 7. How Small is Small? Small Pox, Large Presence; Allan Ingram.- 8. 'Halfe Dead: and rotten at the Coare: my Lord!': Fashionable and Unfashionable Consumption, from Early Modern to Enlightenment; Clark Lawlor.- PART IV: FASHIONING DEATH.- 9. Death by Inoculation: The Fashioning of Mortality in Eighteenth-Century Smallpox Pamphlets; Kelly McGuire.- 10. Fashion Victim: Suicide, Sociability and High Society in Georgiana Cavendish's The Sylph; Leigh Wetherall Dickson.- 11. 'Alas, poor Yorick!': Jonathan Swift, Madness, and Fashionable Science; Helen Deutsch.- Bibliography.- Index.-
Eigenschaften
Breite: | 148 |
Gewicht: | 394 g |
Höhe: | 210 |
Seiten: | 290 |
Sprachen: | Englisch |
Autor: | Allan Ingram, Leigh Wetherall Dickson |