Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780300240764
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0300240767
Series Statement:
Yale scholarship online
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction -- Officers and gentlemen -- The pox and prostitution -- Foreigners -- A chapter of noses -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300217056
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gallagher, Noelle Itch, Clap, Pox New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019 ISBN 0300217056
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300217056
Language:
English
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