Desire and disorder : fevers, fictions, and feeling in English Georgian culture /
Ward, Candace.
Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press ; Cranbury, N.J. : Associated University Presses,
c2007.
This 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-289) and index.
"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.
English literature
Diseases and literature
Fever in literature.
Human body in literature.
Culture in literature.
Perception in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sex differences in literature.
Social classes in literature.