Smallpox and the literary imagination : 1660-1820 / David E. Shuttleton.

This is the first critical study of the literary representation of smallpox and its victims between the Restoration and the development of inoculation against smallpox around 1800. It uncovers the cultural impact of smallpox, and the different ways writers found to come to terms with the terror of d...

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Main Author: Shuttleton, David E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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