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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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Officers and gentlemen
- The pox and prostitution
- Foreigners
- A chapter of noses
- Conclusion.