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Spa culture and literature in England, 1500-1800
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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 ...
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. Divided into three balanced sections, the collection includes contributions from renowned specialists of early modern culture and literature as well as rising young scholars as it seeks to establish a dialogue between different methodologies, and explain why the spa-related issues examined still resonate in today's society.
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- Creator
- Sophie Chiari, Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- Physical Details
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- xxxiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783030665678, 9783030665692, 3030665682, 9783030665708, 3030665674, 9783030665685
- OCLC
- on1255237940, on1255799740
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I. Generic explorations : baths and waters in poetry, drama and prose. 'Bathing [...] in Origane and Thyme' : baths in Spenser's The Faerie Queene / Alix Desnain --Fountain, waters and spas in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi : from blood baths to 'Turkish delights' / François Laroque -- Taking the cure : mineral waters and love's folly in Lady Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania / Tiffany Jo Werth -- Bristol and bath in Frances Burney's Evelina / Anne Rouhette -- 'Oh! Who can ever be tired of bath?' the sense of place in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion / Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou -- Part II. Taking the waters : myth, recreation and satire. Bath and Bladud: the progress of a wayward myth / Tiffany Stern -- Creatures of the bath : transformations at the early modern British spa / Amanda E. Herbert -- Bathing in verse : Christopher Anstey's The New Bath Guide and Georgian resort satire / Shaun Regan -- 'For music is wholesome the doctors all think' : the curative and restorative function of music in eighteenth-century English spas / Pierre Degott -- Part III. Emerging science : the therapeutic uses of waters. 'Water of Paradise' : the role and function of balneology in Bacon's New Atlantis, De vijs mortis and Historia vitae et mortis / Mickaël Popelard -- 'Minerals in Winter' : Robert Wittie's cold treatment / Lowell Duckert -- mineral waters as a treatment for barrenness in eighteenth-century Britain / Sophie Vasset -- Drowning in health : murky perceptions of mineral water and alcohol in eighteenth-century medical literature and social mores / Vaughn Scribner -- Part IV. Coda. New ecocritical perspectives. All is deep : all is shallow--literary springs, wells and depths, from Shakespeare to ecocriticism / Richard Kerridge
Subjects
- Health resorts in literature.
- English literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Health resorts -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Health resorts -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Health resorts -- England -- History -- 18th century.