Swift, Pope and the Doctors: Medicine and Writing in the Early Eighteenth Century

by Allan Ingram

This book explores the impacts, particularly on their writing, of the serious illnesses of Swift and Pope, alongside their respective understandings of health issues and within their period context. Both Swift and Pope spent most of their lives suffering from serious illness, Meniere's Disease (Swift) and Pott's Disease (Pope). This was at a time when medical understanding of these conditions was minimal. This book examines the effects of illness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3770566890
• ISBN13: 9783770566891
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Brill U Fink
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 33.88 lbs.