Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction: Fashioning the Unfashionable

Chapter 2 ‘[F]ictitious [D]istress’ or Veritable Woe?: The Problem of Eighteenth-Century Ennui

Chapter 3 ‘What is fashionably termed ennui ’: Maria Edgeworth Represents the Clinically Bored

Chapter 5 Dean Swift on the Great Pox: Or, The Satirist as Physician

Chapter 6 Of Fribblers and Fumblers: Fashioning Male Impotence in the Long Eighteenth Century

Chapter 7 Fashioning Unfashionable Plague: Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year (1722)

Chapter 8 How Small is Small? Small Pox, Large Presence

Chapter 9 ‘Halfe Dead: and rotten at the Coare: my Lord!’: Fashionable and Unfashionable Consumption, from Early Modern to Enlightenment

Chapter 10 Death by Inoculation: The Fashioning of Mortality in Eighteenth-Century Smallpox Pamphlets

Chapter 11 Fashion Victim: High Society, Sociability and Suicide in Georgiana Cavendish’s The Sylph

Chapter 12 ‘Alas, poor Yorick!’: Jonathan Swift, Madness and Fashionable Science