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001 2006025903
003 DLC
005 20090304072019.0
008 060809s2007 paua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006025903
020 $a0838756484 (alk. paper)
020 $a9780838756485 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm70921407
035 $a(OCoLC)70921407
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043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPR448.D57$bW37 2007
082 00 $a820.9/3561$222
100 1 $aWard, Candace.
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,$cc2007.
300 $a297 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
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.
505 0 $a"Cordial remedies" : fevers, female patients, and sympathetic practitioners -- "Disqualified for labor" : puerperal fever, lying-in hospitals, and Mary Wollstonecraft's Wrongs of woman -- Breaking thro' stone walls : jail fever and sentimental reform -- "Insalubrious regions" : tropical fevers, sensibility, and slavery in the British Caribbean -- "Sure contagion" : pathologizing Creole culture.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aDiseases and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aFever in literature.
650 0 $aHuman body in literature.
650 0 $aCulture in literature.
650 0 $aPerception in literature.
650 0 $aMedicine in literature.
650 0 $aSentimentalism in literature.
650 0 $aSex differences in literature.
650 0 $aSocial classes in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006025903.html