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DISEASE AND DEATH IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERAT...

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of
the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples - ennui  sexual diseases and
infectious diseases - as well as death itself  contributors explore the ways in which writing
of the period placed them within a borderland between fashionability and unfashionability 
relating them to current social fashions and trends. These essays also look at ways in which
diseases were fashioned into bearing cultural  moral  religious and even political meaning.
Works of literature are used as evidence  but also medical writings  personal correspondence
and diaries. Diseases or conditions subject to scrutiny include syphilis  male impotence 
plague  smallpox and consumption. Death  finally  is looked at both in terms of writers
constructing meanings within death and of the fashioning of posthumous reputation.

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