Itch, clap, pox : venereal disease in the eighteenth-century imagination /

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 sec...

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Main Author: Gallagher, Noelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
Series:Yale scholarship online
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