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Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
by Noelle Gallagher
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- 0300217056
- ISBN 13
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Yale University Press, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. Explores the history of metaphors used for venereal disease and how it reflected the cultural anxieties about gender, race, and sex during the 18th century. New tightly bound hardcover in like DJ. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underling. Includes b&w illustrations, source notes and an index. xii, 288 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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 venereal disease, demonstrating how infection's symbolic potency was enhanced by its links to elite masculinity, prostitution, foreignness, and facial deformities. Casting light where the sun rarely shines, this study will fascinate anyone interested in the history of literature, art, medicine, and sexuality.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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 venereal disease, demonstrating how infection's symbolic potency was enhanced by its links to elite masculinity, prostitution, foreignness, and facial deformities. Casting light where the sun rarely shines, this study will fascinate anyone interested in the history of literature, art, medicine, and sexuality.
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- Title
- Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
- Author
- Noelle Gallagher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
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- ISBN 10
- 0300217056
- ISBN 13
- 9780300217056
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- sexually transmitted diseases, medicine, metaphors, immigration, race, slurs,
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