Title: Desire and disorder : fevers, fictions, and feeling in English Georgian culture /
Authors: Ward, Candace.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Typhoid Fever; Tropical Medicine; Sepsis; History, 18th Century; Fever; Medicine in Literature; Human body in literature.; English literature History and criticism; Diseases and literature Great Britain History; Fever in literature.; Culture in literature.; Perception in literature.; Medicine in literature.; Sentimentalism in literature.; Sex differences in literature.; Social classes in literature.; United Kingdom; United Kingdom.
Abstract: "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.
Contents: "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.