Itch, clap, pox : venereal disease in the eighteenth-century imagination / Noelle Gallagher.
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- Sexually transmitted diseases in literature -- History -- 18th century
- Sexually transmitted diseases in art -- History -- 18th century
- Sexually transmitted diseases -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Medicine -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Sexually transmitted diseases -- 18th century
- Medicine -- History -- 18th century
- Medicine in Literature -- history
- Medicine in the Arts -- history
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- history
- History, 18th Century
- England
- Infections transmissibles sexuellement dans la littérature -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Médecine -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General
- MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Diseases
- MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- Sexually transmitted diseases in literature
- Sexually transmitted diseases in art
- Medicine
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- England
- 1700-1799
- 820.9/356109033 23
- PR448.M42 G35 2018
- RC201.47 .G355 2019
- WC 140
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Introduction -- Officers and gentlemen -- The pox and prostitution -- Foreigners -- A chapter of noses -- Conclusion.
A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In this book, literary critic Noelle Gallagher explores the cultural significance of the "clap" (gonorrhea), the "pox" (syphilis), and the "itch" (genital scabies) for the development of eighteenth-century British literature and art. As a condition both represented through metaphors and used as a metaphor, venereal disease provided a vehicle for the discussion of cultural anxieties about gender, race, commerce, and immigration. Gallagher highlights four key concepts associated with the disease, demonstrating how the infection's symbolic potency was enhanced by its links to elite masculinity, prostitution, foreignness, and nasal deformity. Casting light where the sun rarely shines, this study will fascinate anyone interested in the history of literature, art, medicine, and sexuality
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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