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Desire and disorder : fevers, fictions, and feeling in English Georgian culture
- Title
- Desire and disorder : fevers, fictions, and feeling in English Georgian culture / Candace Ward.
- Author
- Ward, Candace.
- Publication
- Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2007.
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- Description
- 297 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Diseases and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Culture in literature
- Perception in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Medicine in literature
- Sex differences in literature
- Sentimentalism in literature
- Fever in literature
- Human body in literature
- Note
- This study situates 18th-century medical fever texts in the broader frame-work of British sentimental culture, explores representations of the fevered bodies, and the ways such representations reveal cultural anxieties along gender, race, and class lines.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-289) and index.
- Contents
- "Cordial remedies" : fevers, female patients, and sympathetic practitioners -- "Disqualified for labor" : puerperal fever, lying-in hospitals, and Mary Wollstonecraft's Wrongs of woman -- Breaking thro' stone walls : jail fever and sentimental reform -- "Insalubrious regions" : tropical fevers, sensibility, and slavery in the British Caribbean -- "Sure contagion" : pathologizing Creole culture.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-6508
- ISBN
- 0838756484 (alk. paper)
- 9780838756485 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006025903
- OCLC
- 70921407
- Author
- Ward, Candace.
- Title
- Desire and disorder : fevers, fictions, and feeling in English Georgian culture / Candace Ward.
- Imprint
- Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-289) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-6508