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...
This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three condition...
