Title: Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820
First published: 2007
Description: This is the first critical study of the literary representation of smallpox and its victims between the Restoration and the development of inoculation against smallpox around 1800. It uncovers the cultural impact of smallpox, and the different ways writers found to come to terms with the terror of disease and death.
Subjects: English literature, Smallpox in literature, History, 17th Century, History, 18th Century, History and criticism, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Medicine in literature, History, 19th Century, Smallpox, History, English literature, history and criticism, Communicable diseases in literature
Places: England
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PR448.S62 S58 2007