Spa culture and literature in England, 1500-1800 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Chiari, Sophie
• Cuisinier-Delorme, Samuel

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030665685

Series

Early modern literature in history

Subject(s)

• ENGLISH LITERATURE
• HEALTH RESORTS
• HEALTH RESORTS IN LITERATURE

Notes

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Abstract

This 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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xxxiv, 290 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

PART I: Generic Explorations: Baths and Waters in Poetry, Drama and Prose --
Chapter 1: Bathing [...] in origane and thyme Baths in Spensers The Faerie Queene --
Chapter 2: Fountain, Waters and Spas in John Websters The Duchess of Malfi: From Blood Baths to Turkish delights --
Chapter 3: Taking the Cure: Mineral Waters and Loves Folly in Lady Mary Wroths The Countess of Montgomerys Urania --
Chapter 4: Bristol and Bath in Frances Burneys Evelina --
Chapter 5: Oh! Who can ever be tired of Bath? The sense of place in Jane Austens 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 Ansteys The New Bath Guide and Georgian Resort Satire --
Chapter 9: 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 Witties 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.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00881/21	613.122094209031 Spa	Online !	Available