02979oam 2200709 c 450 991097506480332120251102090541.03-8467-6689-59783846766897(MiAaPQ)EBC6865640(Au-PeEL)EBL6865640(CKB)20937486900041(OCoLC)1293250172(Brill | Fink)9783846766897(EXLCZ)992093748690004120251102d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSwift, Pope and the DoctorsMedicine and Writing in the Early Eighteenth CenturyAllan Ingram1st ed.PaderbornBrill | Fink20221 online resource (238 pages)Print version: Ingram, Allan Swift, Pope and the Doctors Boston : BRILL,c2022 9783770566891 This book explores the impacts, particularly on their writing, of the serious illnesses of Swift and Pope, alongside their respective understandings of health issues and within their period context. Both Swift and Pope spent most of their lives suffering from serious illness, Ménière’s Disease (Swift) and Pott’s Disease (Pope). This was at a time when medical understanding of these conditions was minimal. This book examines the effects of illness on each writer’s relations with doctors, treatment, and medicine more widely, and how far and in what ways their own experiences affected their writing. The book explains the contemporary medical context and subsequent specialist knowledge of the illnesses, and places each alongside both writers’ attempts to come to terms with their suffering, not least with respect to the different forms and styles of their works. Each writer’s extensive correspondence is drawn on, as well as a range of texts.KrankheitGesundheitHypochonderPottsche KrankheitGullivers ReisenThe DunciadGulliver's TravelsLiteraturLiterature and illnessHealth perspectiveMedical mockeryDiagnosing mediocrityLiterary medicationKrankheitGesundheitHypochonderPottsche KrankheitGullivers ReisenThe DunciadGulliver's TravelsLiteraturLiterature and illnessHealth perspectiveMedical mockeryDiagnosing mediocrityLiterary medication809.933561Ingram Allanaut457408MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910975064803321Swift, Pope and the Doctors4414269UNINA