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Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies Sophie Vasset
Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Sophie Vasset
Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns. -- .
304 pages, 13 colour illustrations, 8 maps
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9781526178824 |
| Publishers | Manchester University Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 138 × 20 mm · 380 g |
| Language | English |