Rotten Bodies
Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300233520,
Yale University Press,
July 2019
352 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especi...
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