Overview
- The first volume to examine in detail the spa culture of sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century England, thus bridging the gap between the Tudor period and the Georgian era
- Combines the readings of well-established critics with analyses from an innovative generation of younger scholars
- Blends ecocritical issues with medicinal and sociological topics
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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This edited collection aims at highlighting the various uses of water in sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth-century England, while exploring the tensions between those who praised the curative virtues of waters and those who rejected them for their supposedly harmful effects. Divided into three balanced sections, the collection includes contributions from renowned specialists of early modern culture and literature as well as rising young scholars as it seeks to establish a dialogue between different methodologies, and explain why the spa-related issues examined still resonate in today’s society.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Generic Explorations: Baths and Waters in Poetry, Drama and Prose
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Taking the Waters: Myth, Recreation and Satire
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Emerging Science: The Therapeutic Uses of Waters
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Coda. New Ecocritical Perspectives
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sophie Chiari is Professor of English Literature at the Université Clermont Auvergne, France, specializing in ecocritical studies. Previous publications include Shakespeare’s Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment (2019). She is currently working on Shakespeare’s Environment: A Dictionary (2021).
Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme is a lecturer at the Université Clermont Auvergne where his research focuses on English Literature from the 16th _18th centuries. Samuel lives and works in Vichy, where he is developing research projects on waters and balneology. He is currently planning a seminar on spa literature and is also working on a forthcoming book in French on the same topic, Regards sur le thermalisme européen du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800
Editors: Sophie Chiari, Samuel Cuisinier-Delorme
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66568-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66567-8Published: 01 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66570-8Published: 02 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66568-5Published: 31 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 290
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, Eighteenth-Century Literature