This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples
This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically i
Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most
In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of m