Publication : "Itch, Clap, Pox : Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination".

GALLAGHER Noelle, Itch, Clap, Pox : Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2019, 288 p. Présentation de l'éditeur : In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In this book, literary critic Noelle Gallagher explores the cultural significance ..