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03825aam a2200505 i 4500 001 496CD4F02E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230405t20232023quc b 001 0 eng 020 $a 0228019796 020 $a 9780228019794 020 $a 9780228019060 020 $a 0228019060 035 $a (OCoLC)1374816005 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d NLC $d YDX $d OCLCL $d MUU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a PR113 $b .M44 2023 055 00 $a PR113 $b .M44 2023 082 0 $a 820.9/928709033 $2 23 100 1 $a Meek, Heather, $e author. 245 10 $a Reimagining illness : $b women writers and medicine in eighteenth-century Britain / $c Heather Meek. 264 1 $a Montreal ; $b McGill-Queen's University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a ix, 312 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; $v 62 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 520 $a "In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge. In this pre-professionalized milieu, several women writers made important contributions by describing a range of common yet often devastating illnesses. In Reimagining Illness Heather Meek reads works by six major eighteenth-century women writers--Jane Barker, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Frances Burney--alongside contemporaneous medical texts to explore conditions such as hysteria, melancholy, smallpox, maternity, consumption, and breast cancer. In novels, poems, letters, and journals, these writers drew on their learning and literary skill as they engaged with and revised male-dominated medical discourse. Their works provide insight into the experience of suffering and interrogate accepted theories of women's bodies and minds. In ways relevant both then and now, these women demonstrate how illness might be at once a bodily condition and a malleable construct full of ideological meaning and imaginative possibility. Reimagining Illness offers a new account of the vital period in medico-literary history between 1660 and 1815, revealing how the works of women writers not only represented the medicine of their time but also contributed meaningfully to its developments."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a English literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Medical literature $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Diseases in literature. 650 7 $a Diseases in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00895210 650 7 $a English literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a English literature $x Women authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912218 650 7 $a Medical literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01014347 651 7 $a Great Britain $2 fast $1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Meek, Heather. $t Reimagining illness. $d Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023 $z 9780228019794 $z 9780228019794 $w (OCoLC)1382631230 830 0 $a McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; $v 62. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619010450.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=496CD4F02E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search