Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800

<p></p><p>PART I: Generic Explorations: Baths and Waters in Poetry, Drama and Prose.- Chapter 1: “Bathing [...] in origane and thyme”: Baths in Spenser’s&nbsp;The Faerie Queene.- Chapter 2: Fountain, Waters and Spas in John Webster’s&nbsp;The Duchess of Malfi:&nbsp;From Blood Baths to ‘Turkish delights’.- Chapter 3: Taking the Cure: Mineral Waters and Love’s Folly in Lady Mary Wroth’s&nbsp;The Countess of Montgomery’s&nbsp;Urania.- Chapter 4: Bristol and Bath in Frances Burney’s&nbsp;Evelina.- Chapter 5: “Oh! Who can ever be tired of Bath?”: The sense of place in Jane Austen’s&nbsp;Northanger Abbey&nbsp;and&nbsp;Persuasion.- PART II: Taking the Waters: Myth, Recreation and Satire.- Chapter 6: Bath and Bladud: The Progress of a Wayward Myth.- Chapter 7: Creatures of the Bath: Transformations at the Early Modern British Spa.- Chapter 8: Bathing in Verse: Christopher Anstey’s&nbsp;The New Bath Guide&nbsp;and Georgian Resort Satire.- Chapter9: “For Music is wholesome the Doctors all think”: The Curative and Restorative Function of Music in Eighteenth-Century English Spas.-PART III: Emerging Science: The Therapeutic Uses of Waters.- Chapter 10: “Water of Paradise”: The Role and Function of Balneology in Bacon's&nbsp;New Atlantis,&nbsp;De vijs mortis&nbsp;and&nbsp;Historia vitae et mortis.- Chapter 11: “Minerals in Winter”: Robert Wittie’s Cold Treatment.- Chapter 12: Mineral Waters as a Treatment for Barrenness in Eighteenth-Century Britain.- Chapter 13: Drowning in Health: Murky Perceptions of Mineral Water and Alcohol in Eighteenth-Century Medical Literature and Social Mores.- Coda: New ecocritical perspectives.- Chapter 14: All is Deep: All is Shallow.</p><br><p></p>