1996, ISBN: 0813108888

[SC: 69.73], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: Un… More...

[SC: 69.73], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996, 269pp., PAPERBACK, light pencil marks in margins on about 5 pages with a few lines underlined in pencil on a couple, otherwise very good copy. Like AIDS today, venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Medical practitioners of every stripe - legitimate and otherwise - knew little but wrote volumes about its origins, symptoms, and "cures." The pathology of the disease remained elusive throughout the century despite frequent and loud debates on the topic in the press. The essays in this collection paint a portrait of the secret malady - public and private responses to the epidemic; changing attitudes toward the disease; and its role in making sex a taboo subject, in enforcing class and racial distinctions, and in raising the level of misogyny. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection makes this an important and fascinating work for scholars in several fields, including history, art, literature, the history of medicine, and women's studies. - CONTENTS: Introduction / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.1. Historical and medical contexts of venereal disease. The pox in eighteenth-century France / Susan P. Conner -- From courtesan to prostitute : mercenary sex and venereal disease, 1730-1802 / Kathryn Norberg -- "Laying aside any private advantage" : John Marten and venereal disease / Roy Porter -- Exposing the secret disease : recognizing and treating syphilis in Daniel Turner's London / Philip K. Wilson -- John Burrows and the vegetable wars / Marie E. McAllister -- "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" : syphilis and wives / Mary Margaret Stewart -- The problem of syphilitic children in eighteenth-century France and England / Barbara J. Dunlap -- The London Lock Hospital and the Lock asylum for women / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.2. Representations of venereal diseas. Decorums / Betty Rizzo -- The meaning of venereal disease in Hogarth's graphic art / N.F. Lowe -- Satiric representation of venereal disease : the restoration versus the eighteenth-century model / Rose A. Zimbardo -- Pox and malice : some representations of venereal disease in restoration and eighteenth-century satire / Leon Guilhamet -- Avoiding the subject : the presence and absence of venereal disease in the eighteenth-century english novel / April London -- Job's curse and social degeneracy in Rétif de la Bretonne's Le Paysan Perverti / Diane Fouurny -- Contagion and containment : Sade and the republic of letters / Julie Candle Hayes. 9780813108889 ISBN 0813108888<

1996, ISBN: 0813108888

[SC: 23.69], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: Un… More...

[SC: 23.69], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996, 269pp., PAPERBACK, light pencil marks in margins on about 5 pages with a few lines underlined in pencil on a couple, otherwise very good copy. Like AIDS today, venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Medical practitioners of every stripe - legitimate and otherwise - knew little but wrote volumes about its origins, symptoms, and "cures." The pathology of the disease remained elusive throughout the century despite frequent and loud debates on the topic in the press. The essays in this collection paint a portrait of the secret malady - public and private responses to the epidemic; changing attitudes toward the disease; and its role in making sex a taboo subject, in enforcing class and racial distinctions, and in raising the level of misogyny. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection makes this an important and fascinating work for scholars in several fields, including history, art, literature, the history of medicine, and women's studies. - CONTENTS: Introduction / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.1. Historical and medical contexts of venereal disease. The pox in eighteenth-century France / Susan P. Conner -- From courtesan to prostitute : mercenary sex and venereal disease, 1730-1802 / Kathryn Norberg -- "Laying aside any private advantage" : John Marten and venereal disease / Roy Porter -- Exposing the secret disease : recognizing and treating syphilis in Daniel Turner's London / Philip K. Wilson -- John Burrows and the vegetable wars / Marie E. McAllister -- "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" : syphilis and wives / Mary Margaret Stewart -- The problem of syphilitic children in eighteenth-century France and England / Barbara J. Dunlap -- The London Lock Hospital and the Lock asylum for women / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.2. Representations of venereal diseas. Decorums / Betty Rizzo -- The meaning of venereal disease in Hogarth's graphic art / N.F. Lowe -- Satiric representation of venereal disease : the restoration versus the eighteenth-century model / Rose A. Zimbardo -- Pox and malice : some representations of venereal disease in restoration and eighteenth-century satire / Leon Guilhamet -- Avoiding the subject : the presence and absence of venereal disease in the eighteenth-century english novel / April London -- Job's curse and social degeneracy in Rétif de la Bretonne's Le Paysan Perverti / Diane Fouurny -- Contagion and containment : Sade and the republic of letters / Julie Candle Hayes. 9780813108889 ISBN 0813108888<

1996, ISBN: 0813108888

[SC: 68.73], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: Un… More...

[SC: 68.73], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996, 269pp., PAPERBACK, light pencil marks in margins on about 5 pages with a few lines underlined in pencil on a couple, otherwise very good copy. Like AIDS today, venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Medical practitioners of every stripe - legitimate and otherwise - knew little but wrote volumes about its origins, symptoms, and "cures." The pathology of the disease remained elusive throughout the century despite frequent and loud debates on the topic in the press. The essays in this collection paint a portrait of the secret malady - public and private responses to the epidemic; changing attitudes toward the disease; and its role in making sex a taboo subject, in enforcing class and racial distinctions, and in raising the level of misogyny. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection makes this an important and fascinating work for scholars in several fields, including history, art, literature, the history of medicine, and women's studies. - CONTENTS: Introduction / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.1. Historical and medical contexts of venereal disease. The pox in eighteenth-century France / Susan P. Conner -- From courtesan to prostitute : mercenary sex and venereal disease, 1730-1802 / Kathryn Norberg -- "Laying aside any private advantage" : John Marten and venereal disease / Roy Porter -- Exposing the secret disease : recognizing and treating syphilis in Daniel Turner's London / Philip K. Wilson -- John Burrows and the vegetable wars / Marie E. McAllister -- "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" : syphilis and wives / Mary Margaret Stewart -- The problem of syphilitic children in eighteenth-century France and England / Barbara J. Dunlap -- The London Lock Hospital and the Lock asylum for women / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.2. Representations of venereal diseas. Decorums / Betty Rizzo -- The meaning of venereal disease in Hogarth's graphic art / N.F. Lowe -- Satiric representation of venereal disease : the restoration versus the eighteenth-century model / Rose A. Zimbardo -- Pox and malice : some representations of venereal disease in restoration and eighteenth-century satire / Leon Guilhamet -- Avoiding the subject : the presence and absence of venereal disease in the eighteenth-century english novel / April London -- Job's curse and social degeneracy in Rétif de la Bretonne's Le Paysan Perverti / Diane Fouurny -- Contagion and containment : Sade and the republic of letters / Julie Candle Hayes. 9780813108889 ISBN 0813108888<

1996, ISBN: 0813108888

[SC: 4.49], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: Uni… More...

[SC: 4.49], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996, 269pp., PAPERBACK, light pencil marks in margins on about 5 pages with a few lines underlined in pencil on a couple, otherwise very good copy. Like AIDS today, venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Medical practitioners of every stripe - legitimate and otherwise - knew little but wrote volumes about its origins, symptoms, and "cures." The pathology of the disease remained elusive throughout the century despite frequent and loud debates on the topic in the press. The essays in this collection paint a portrait of the secret malady - public and private responses to the epidemic; changing attitudes toward the disease; and its role in making sex a taboo subject, in enforcing class and racial distinctions, and in raising the level of misogyny. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection makes this an important and fascinating work for scholars in several fields, including history, art, literature, the history of medicine, and women's studies. - CONTENTS: Introduction / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.1. Historical and medical contexts of venereal disease. The pox in eighteenth-century France / Susan P. Conner -- From courtesan to prostitute : mercenary sex and venereal disease, 1730-1802 / Kathryn Norberg -- "Laying aside any private advantage" : John Marten and venereal disease / Roy Porter -- Exposing the secret disease : recognizing and treating syphilis in Daniel Turner's London / Philip K. Wilson -- John Burrows and the vegetable wars / Marie E. McAllister -- "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" : syphilis and wives / Mary Margaret Stewart -- The problem of syphilitic children in eighteenth-century France and England / Barbara J. Dunlap -- The London Lock Hospital and the Lock asylum for women / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.2. Representations of venereal diseas. Decorums / Betty Rizzo -- The meaning of venereal disease in Hogarth's graphic art / N.F. Lowe -- Satiric representation of venereal disease : the restoration versus the eighteenth-century model / Rose A. Zimbardo -- Pox and malice : some representations of venereal disease in restoration and eighteenth-century satire / Leon Guilhamet -- Avoiding the subject : the presence and absence of venereal disease in the eighteenth-century english novel / April London -- Job's curse and social degeneracy in Rétif de la Bretonne's Le Paysan Perverti / Diane Fouurny -- Contagion and containment : Sade and the republic of letters / Julie Candle Hayes. 9780813108889 ISBN 0813108888<

1996, ISBN: 0813108888

[SC: 70.7], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: Uni… More...

[SC: 70.7], [PU: Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996], Merians, Linda E. The secret malady: venereal disease in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Lexington, K.Y.: University Press of Kentucky, 1996, 269pp., PAPERBACK, light pencil marks in margins on about 5 pages with a few lines underlined in pencil on a couple, otherwise very good copy. Like AIDS today, venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Medical practitioners of every stripe - legitimate and otherwise - knew little but wrote volumes about its origins, symptoms, and "cures." The pathology of the disease remained elusive throughout the century despite frequent and loud debates on the topic in the press. The essays in this collection paint a portrait of the secret malady - public and private responses to the epidemic; changing attitudes toward the disease; and its role in making sex a taboo subject, in enforcing class and racial distinctions, and in raising the level of misogyny. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection makes this an important and fascinating work for scholars in several fields, including history, art, literature, the history of medicine, and women's studies. - CONTENTS: Introduction / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.1. Historical and medical contexts of venereal disease. The pox in eighteenth-century France / Susan P. Conner -- From courtesan to prostitute : mercenary sex and venereal disease, 1730-1802 / Kathryn Norberg -- "Laying aside any private advantage" : John Marten and venereal disease / Roy Porter -- Exposing the secret disease : recognizing and treating syphilis in Daniel Turner's London / Philip K. Wilson -- John Burrows and the vegetable wars / Marie E. McAllister -- "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" : syphilis and wives / Mary Margaret Stewart -- The problem of syphilitic children in eighteenth-century France and England / Barbara J. Dunlap -- The London Lock Hospital and the Lock asylum for women / Linda E. Merians -- Pt.2. Representations of venereal diseas. Decorums / Betty Rizzo -- The meaning of venereal disease in Hogarth's graphic art / N.F. Lowe -- Satiric representation of venereal disease : the restoration versus the eighteenth-century model / Rose A. Zimbardo -- Pox and malice : some representations of venereal disease in restoration and eighteenth-century satire / Leon Guilhamet -- Avoiding the subject : the presence and absence of venereal disease in the eighteenth-century english novel / April London -- Job's curse and social degeneracy in Rétif de la Bretonne's Le Paysan Perverti / Diane Fouurny -- Contagion and containment : Sade and the republic of letters / Julie Candle Hayes. 9780813108889 ISBN 0813108888<