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