{"product_id":"smallpox-and-the-literary-imagination-1660-1820-paperback-9781107406483","title":"Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107406483","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSmallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is a substantial critical study of the literary representation of smallpox and its victims.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid E. Shuttleton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107406483, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 August 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… important and impressive monograph …' The Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSmallpox was a much feared disease until modern times, responsible for many deaths worldwide and reaching epidemic proportions amongst the British population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book is a 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. David Shuttleton draws upon a wide range of canonical texts including works by Dryden, Johnson, Steele, Goldsmith and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the latter having experimented with vaccination against smallpox. He reads these texts alongside medical treatises and the rare, but moving writings of smallpox survivors, showing how medical and imaginative writers developed a shared tradition of figurative tropes, myths and metaphors. This fascinating study uncovers the cultural impact of smallpox, and the different ways writers found to come to terms with the terror of disease and death.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: imagining smallpox\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Disease: 1. Contagion by conceit\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'What odious change…?': smallpox autopathography\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Death: 3. Smallpox elegy\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sentimental smallpox\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Disfigurement: 5. 'Beauty's enemy' and the disfigured woman\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Enamel'd not deform'd': manly disfigurements\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Prevention: 7. 'Beauty's triumph': inoculation\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'Cow mania': vaccination, poetry, and politics\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: smallpox in Georgian portraiture\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265692913944,"sku":"9781107406483","price":34.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107406483i.jpg?v=1694485021","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/smallpox-and-the-literary-imagination-1660-1820-paperback-9781107406483","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}