Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Fashioning the Unfashionable

“Disease and Death has the welcoming feel of a book designed to open new areas of enquiry and invite further research; one can only hope such interests will prove infectious.” (Noelle Dückmann Gallagher, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 33 (1), 2020)



“This collection of essays proves the continued fruitfulness of exploring the intersections of medicine and literature in eighteenth-century British society, by viewing disease from the perspective of what is ‘fashionable’ and ‘unfashionable’. … Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture traces the intertwined social and narrative shifts in attitude towards these diseases over the long eighteenth century.” (Margaret S. Yoon, The Review of English Studies, April, 2018)






“Based on the findings of their Leverhulme Trust-funded ‘Fashionable Diseases’ research project, the editors of and contributors to Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture explore the fascinating intersections of health and medicine, literature, and modish culture. … Ingram and Dickson’s edited collection is an astute and convincing work that sheds much-needed light on the cultural medicalisation processes that populate the pages of eighteenth-century literature.” (Abigail Boucher, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, July, 2017)