This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples

Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as

This ground-breaking study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically i

Based on encyclopedias, medical journals, historical, and literary sources, this collection of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the intersection of women, ge

Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most