Swift, Pope and the Doctors : Medicine and Writing in the Early Eighteenth Century / Allan Ingram

• Autore: Ingram Allan
• Pubblicazione: Paderborn, : Brill | Fink, 2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.933561
• Soggetto topico: Krankheit; Gesundheit; Hypochonder; Pottsche Krankheit; Gullivers Reisen; The Dunciad; Gulliver's Travels; Literatur; Literature and illness; Health perspective; Medical mockery; Diagnosing mediocrity; Literary medication
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Swift, Pope and the Doctors
• ISBN: 3-8467-6689-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975064803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II