Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660–1820
David E. (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) Shuttleton
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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This book is a substantial critical study of the literary representation of smallpox and its victims. David Shuttleton draws upon works by Dryden, Johnson, Steele, Goldsmith and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to uncover the different ways writers found to come to terms with the terror of disease and death.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521872096
- ISBN-10
- 052187209X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2007
- Publication date
- 2007-05-17
- Pages
- 280
- Dimensions
- 159x236x23
- Weight
- 554