{"product_id":"disease-and-death-in-eighteenth-century-literature-and-culture-fashioning-the-unfashionable-9781137597175","title":"Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allan Ingram\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781137597175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan Ingram is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Northumbria, UK. He has published widely on eighteenth-century writing, with a particular interest in the relations between literature, medicine, and madness. His works in this field include \u003ci\u003eThe Madhouse of Language \u003c\/i\u003e(1991) and \u003ci\u003eCultural Constructions of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e (2005). Between 2006 and 2009 he was Director of the Leverhulme Trust project 'Before Depression', and was a Co-Director of the Leverhulme project, 'Fashionable Diseases', of which this volume is one outcome. He has edited \u003ci\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and was co-editor of a four-volume set of source material, D\u003ci\u003eepression and Melancholy 1660-1800\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). Most recently he co-edited a set of essays, \u003ci\u003eVoice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(2015).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeigh Wetherall Dickson is Senior Lecturer in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature at Northumbria University, UK. She began her career there as a post-doctoral Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded 'Before Depression 1660-1800' project. She has written and published extensively upon the experience of presumed mental disease, and was the co-general editor and volume editor for \u003ci\u003eDepression and Melancholy 1600-1800\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). She is now one of the directors of 'Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832', also funded by the Leverhulme Trust for three years. Her current research focusses upon the relationship between fashion, fame, and illness in the long eighteenth century, and is particularly interested in how the pursuit of fame was viewed as a type of contagious disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44029716365427,"sku":"9.78114E+12","price":203.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_3f57e7cf-0fb4-48aa-8f39-8a93938f6fbd.jpg?v=1761398210","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/disease-and-death-in-eighteenth-century-literature-and-culture-fashioning-the-unfashionable-9781137597175","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}