Desire and disorder : fevers, fictions, and feeling in English Georgian culture / Candace Ward.

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, [2007], ©2007.

297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

This study situates 18th-century medical fever texts in the broader frame-work of British sentimental culture, explores representations of the fevered bodies, and the ways such representations reveal cultural anxieties along gender, race, and class lines.

"Cordial remedies" : fevers, female patients, and sympathetic practitioners -- "Disqualified for labor" : puerperal fever, lying-in hospitals, and Mary Wollstonecraft's Wrongs of woman -- Breaking thro' stone walls : jail fever and sentimental reform -- "Insalubrious regions" : tropical fevers, sensibility, and slavery in the British Caribbean -- "Sure contagion" : pathologizing Creole culture.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-289) and index.