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Desire and Disorder
Candace Ward
其他書名
Fevers, Fictions, and Feeling in English Georgian Culture
出版Bucknell University Press, 2007
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
ISBN08387564849780838756485
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IQf1BrqnN50C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book situates eighteenth-century medical fever texts in the broader framework of sentimental culture, reading works by physicians like Sir Richard Manningham, George Fordyce, John Leake, James Carmichael Smyth, and James Lind against various fictions of the period - novels like Frances Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, J. W. Orderson's Creoleana, William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Charles Dickens' Bleak House, and poetry like James Grainger's The Sugar Cane and Anna Letitia Barbauld's Epistle to William Wilberforce. These juxtapositions not only reveal the degree to which physicians deployed the sentimental discourse used by literary artists but also demonstrate that fever as a disease and metaphor was a highly fluid construct, evoked for different reasons and shaped