Book ID: CBB000930590

Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660--1820 (2007)

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Shuttleton, David E. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xiii + 265 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “This is the first substantial critical study of the literary representation of the disease and its victims between the Restoration and the development of inoculation against smallpox around 1800.” (from the abstract)


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Review Rusnock, Andrea (2009) Review of "Smallpox and the Literary Imagination 1660--1820". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (p. 257). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Marc Priewe
Ryan, William John
González Espitia, Juan Carlos
Servitje, Lorenzo
Jennifer S. Henke
Natalie Roxburgh
Concepts
Medicine and culture
Disease and diseases
Medicine and literature
Smallpox
Medicine and society
Medicine
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Europe
England
New England (U.S.)
Americas
United States
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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