Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
2021.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Springer eBooks.
Early Modern Literature in History, |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45596141*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Chapter 9: "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.
