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Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Paru le : 2017-02-23

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This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period placed them within a borderland between fashionability and unfashionability, relating them to current social fashions and trends.
These essays also look at ways in which diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural, moral, religious and even political meaning. Works of literature are used as evidence, but also medical writings, personal correspondence and diaries. Diseases or conditions subject to scrutiny include syphilis, male impotence, plague, smallpox and consumption. Death, finally, is looked at both in terms of writers constructing meanings within death and of the fashioning of posthumous reputation.
Pages
290 pages
Collection
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Parution
2017-02-23
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9781137597175
EAN PDF
9781137597182
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Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
29
Taille du fichier
15186 Ko
Prix
120,99 €
EAN EPUB
9781137597182
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
29
Taille du fichier
1280 Ko
Prix
120,99 €

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