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Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820
Shuttleton, David E. (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820
Shuttleton, David E. (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
This book is a substantial critical study of the literary representation of smallpox and its victims. David Shuttleton draws upon works by Dryden, Johnson, Steele, Goldsmith and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to uncover the different ways writers found to come to terms with the terror of disease and death.
264 pages, 13 b/w illus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 2, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780521872096 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Dimensions | 236 × 159 × 23 mm · 585 g |
Language | English |