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Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

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290 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am01.06.2021
This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly harmful effects.mehr
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KlappentextThis edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly harmful effects.
Zusammenfassung
The first volume to examine in detail the spa culture of sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century England, thus bridging the gap between the Tudor period and the Georgian era

Combines the readings of well-established critics with analyses from an innovative generation of younger scholars

Blends ecocritical issues with medicinal and sociological topics
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-66567-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2021
Erscheinungsdatum01.06.2021
ReiheEarly Modern Literature in History
Seiten290 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXXXIV, 290 p. 9 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.16299999
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GenreLexika/Sprachen

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART I: Generic Explorations: Baths and Waters in Poetry, Drama and Prose.- Chapter 1: Bathing [...] in origane and thyme : Baths in Spenser´s The Faerie Queene.- Chapter 2: Fountain, Waters and Spas in John Webster´s The Duchess of Malfi: From Blood Baths to Turkish delights´.- Chapter 3: Taking the Cure: Mineral Waters and Love´s Folly in Lady Mary Wroth´s The Countess of Montgomery´s Urania.- Chapter 4: Bristol and Bath in Frances Burney´s Evelina.- Chapter 5: Oh! Who can ever be tired of Bath? : The sense of place in Jane Austen´s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.- PART II: Taking the Waters: Myth, Recreation and Satire.- Chapter 6: Bath and Bladud: The Progress of a Wayward Myth.- Chapter 7: Creatures of the Bath: Transformations at the Early Modern British Spa.- Chapter 8: Bathing in Verse: Christopher Anstey´s The New Bath Guide and Georgian Resort Satire.- Chapter9: For Music is wholesome the Doctors all think : The Curative and Restorative Function of Music in Eighteenth-Century English Spas.-PART III: Emerging Science: The Therapeutic Uses of Waters.- Chapter 10: Water of Paradise : The Role and Function of Balneology in Bacon's New Atlantis, De vijs mortis and Historia vitae et mortis.- Chapter 11: Minerals in Winter : Robert Wittie´s Cold Treatment.- Chapter 12: Mineral Waters as a Treatment for Barrenness in Eighteenth-Century Britain.- Chapter 13: Drowning in Health: Murky Perceptions of Mineral Water and Alcohol in Eighteenth-Century Medical Literature and Social Mores.- Coda: New ecocritical perspectives.- Chapter 14: All is Deep: All is Shallow.mehr

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Autor

Sophie Chiari is Professor of English Literature at the Université Clermont Auvergne, France, specializing in ecocritical studies. Previous publications include Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment (2019). She is currently working on Shakespeare's Environment: A Dictionary (2021).

Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme is a lecturer at the Université Clermont Auvergne where his research focuses on English Literature from the 16th _18th centuries. Samuel lives and works in Vichy, where he is developing research projects on waters and balneology. He is currently planning a seminar on spa literature and is also working on a forthcoming book in French on the same topic, Regards sur le thermalisme européen du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle (2021).

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