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Murky Waters - British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature (Hardcover)
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Murky Waters - British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
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Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in
eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent
contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health
in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of
treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The
book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses
on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and
offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of
'murkiness', it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the
gender fluidity of users to the local and national political
dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and
investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a
pinch of salt to health-related discourses. -- .
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