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100 1 $aWard, Candace.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95031449
245 10 $aDesire and disorder :$bfevers, fictions, and feeling in English Georgian culture /$cCandace Ward.
260 $aLewisburg [Pa.] :$bBucknell University Press ;$aCranbury, NJ :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $a297 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $g1.$t"Cordial remedies" : fevers, female patients, and sympathetic practitioners -- $g2.$t"Disqualified for labor" : puerperal fever, lying-in hospitals, and Mary Wollstonecraft's Wrongs of woman -- $g3.$tBreaking thro' stone walls : jail fever and sentimental reform -- $g4.$t"Insalubrious regions" : tropical fevers, sensibility, and slavery in the British Caribbean -- $g5.$t"Sure contagion" : pathologizing Creole culture -- $gApp.$t"Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq." /$rAnna Letitia Barbauld.
500 $aThis 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 234-289) and index.
520 1 $a"This book situates eighteenth-century medical fever texts in the broader framework of sentimental culture, reading works by physicians like Sir Richard Manningham, George Fordyce, John Leake, James Carmichael Smyth, and James Lind against various fictions of the period - novels like Frances Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, J. W. Orderson's Creoleana, William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Charles Dickens's Bleak House, and poetry like James Grainger's The Sugar Cane and Anna Letitia Barbauld's "Epistle to William Wilberforce." These juxtapositions not only reveal the degree to which physicians deployed the sentimental discourse used by literary artists but also demonstrate that "fever" as a disease and metaphor was a highly fluid construct, evoked for different reasons and shaped according to various cultural imperatives." "Desire and Disorder makes a unique contribution to eighteenth-century studies, introducing and analyzing a body of texts - medical fever writing - until now unexplored for its wide-reaching cultural significance. In addition to these medical essays and treatises, the book draws from a wide range of other documents: novels, poetry, plays, expansionist propaganda, social reform tracts, parliamentary reports, personal correspondence, diaries, and political cartoons. Interdisciplinary in nature, Desire and Disorder will appeal to a variety of readers including medical historians, literary critics, historians of the long eighteenth century, and those concerned with the intersections of popular culture and the sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102755
650 0 $aDiseases and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aFever in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006006108
650 0 $aHuman body in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015234
650 0 $aCulture in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004506
650 0 $aPerception in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007568
650 0 $aMedicine in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083194
650 0 $aSentimentalism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120064
650 0 $aSex differences in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98000965
650 0 $aSocial classes in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123925
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006025903.html
852 00 $bglx$hPR448.D57$iW37 2007