The realms of Apollo : literature and healing in seventeenth-century England
Focusing on the dangers of childbirth and the terrors of bubonic plague, venereal disease, and smallpox, the book reveals in the discourse of literary and medical texts the meanings of sickness and death in both the daily life and culture of seventeenth-century England
Print Book, English, ©1995
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1995
Criticism, interpretation, etc
316 pages ; 24 cm
9780874135534, 0874135532
31782784
The lyre and the bow
The bitter fruits of Eve: miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death
The king of terrours: plague
The plague of Venus: venereal disease
A double death: smallpox
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