LEADER 05460nam 22007335 450 001 9910484660703321 005 20251202152332.0 010 $a9783030665685 010 $a3030665682 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-66568-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000011950071 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6634978 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6634978 035 $a(OCoLC)1255237940 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-66568-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011950071 100 $a20210531d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800 /$fedited by Sophie Chiari, Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (310 pages) 225 1 $aEarly Modern Literature in History,$x2634-5927 311 08$a9783030665678 311 08$a3030665674 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPART 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 -- Chapter9: ?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. 330 $aThis edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly harmful effects. Divided into three balanced sections, the collection includes contributions from renowned specialists of early modern culture and literature as well as rising young scholars as it seeks to establish a dialogue between different methodologies, and explain why the spa-related issues examined still resonate in today?s society. Sophie Chiari is Professor of English Literature at the Université Clermont Auvergne, France, specializing in ecocritical studies. Previous publications include Shakespeare?s Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment (2019). She is currently working on Shakespeare?s Environment: A Dictionary (2021). Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme is a lecturer at the Université Clermont Auvergne where his research focuses on English Literature from the 16th _18th centuries. Samuel lives and works in Vichy, where he is developing research projects on waters and balneology. He is currently planning a seminar on spa literature and is also working on a forthcoming book in French on the same topic, Regards sur le thermalisme européen du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle (2021). 410 0$aEarly Modern Literature in History,$x2634-5927 606 $aEuropean literature$xRenaissance, 1450-1600 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x17th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x18th century 606 $aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aSeventeenth-Century Literature 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature 615 0$aEuropean literature$xRenaissance, 1450-1600. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x17th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x18th century. 615 14$aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aEcocriticism. 615 24$aSeventeenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 676 $a690.896 676 $a613.122094209031 702 $aChiari$b Sophie 702 $aCuisinier-Delorme$b Samuel 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484660703321 996 $aSpa culture and literature in England, 1500-1800$92586333 997 $aUNINA