ISBN:
9781526172860
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 290 pages)
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Illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour).
Series Statement:
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies
Series Statement:
Manchester scholarship online
DDC:
391.64
Keywords:
Health resorts History 18th century
;
Hydrotherapy History 18th century
;
Mineral waters Therapeutic use 18th century
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History
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Health resorts in literature
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Health and Wellbeing
;
Health, relationships & personal development
;
Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century
Abstract:
'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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7765/9781526159724
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526159724
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