| Description |
1 online resource (310 pages) |
| Series |
Early Modern Literature in History |
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Early modern literature in history.
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| Contents |
PART I: Generic Explorations: Baths and Waters in Poetry, Drama and Prose -- Chapter 1: Bathing ... in origane and thyme Baths in Spensers The Faerie Queene -- Chapter 2: Fountain, Waters and Spas in John Websters The Duchess of Malfi: From Blood Baths to Turkish delights -- Chapter 3: Taking the Cure: Mineral Waters and Loves Folly in Lady Mary Wroths The Countess of Montgomerys Urania -- Chapter 4: Bristol and Bath in Frances Burneys Evelina -- Chapter 5: Oh! Who can ever be tired of Bath? The sense of place in Jane Austens 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 Ansteys 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 Witties 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 |
| Summary |
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 todays society. Sophie Chiari is Professor of English Literature at the Universite Clermont Auvergne, France, specializing in ecocritical studies. Previous publications include Shakespeares Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment (2019). She is currently working on Shakespeares Environment: A Dictionary (2021). Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme is a lecturer at the Universite Clermont Auvergne where his research focuses on English Literature from the 16th _18th centuries. Samuel lives and works in Vichy, where he is developing research projects on waters and balneology. He is currently planning a seminar on spa literature and is also working on a forthcoming book in French on the same topic, Regards sur le thermalisme europeen du Moyen Age au XIXe siecle (2021) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 21, 2021) |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Spa pools -- England -- History -- In literature -- Congresses
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Health resorts in literature -- Congresses
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Health resorts -- England -- History -- Congresses
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English literature
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Health resorts
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Health resorts in literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chiari, Sophie, editor
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Cuisinier-Delorme, Samuel, 1983- editor.
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| ISBN |
3030665682 |
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9783030665685 |
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