Orwell's Cough
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Orwell's Cough

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Orwell's Cough

About this book

Literary muses meet medical complaints in this marvellous look at the Bard, the Brontës, Milton, Swift, Joyce, and more "The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, he explained the treatment: stewed prunes to evacuate the bowels; succulent meats to ease digestion; cinnabar and the sweating tub
 Desperate diseases called for desperate remedies." Did Will Shakespeare's doctors addle his brain with cinnabar and mercury? Was Jane Eyre inspired by the plagued school that claimed the Brontë clan? Did writing 1984 kill George Orwell? Dr John Ross of Harvard Medical School opens his surgery to consult with the likes of Milton, Swift, Melville, Joyce, and Jack London, exploring the history of medicine as never before, from the Bard's cloaked visits to Southwark to cure his unsavoury rashes to the arsenic-and-horse-serum jabs given for Yeats's fevers. With novelistic flair and deep expertise, Ross reveals a wholly absorbing new view on the writer's life.

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Information

Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781780741130
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Author’s Note
  7. 1. The Hardest Knife Ill-Used: Shakespeare’s Tremor
  8. 2. Exil’d from Light: The Blindness of John Milton
  9. 3. Dying from the Top Down: The Dementia of Jonathan Swift
  10. 4. Some Sweet Poisoned Breeze had Passed into her Lungs: The Brontës and Tuberculosis
  11. 5. Dismal Labyrinth of Doubt: The Strange Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  12. 6. Perilous Outpost of the Sane: The Many Maladies of Herman Melville
  13. 7. Sex and the Dead: Brucellosis, Arsenic, and William Butler Yeats
  14. 8. Medical Misadventures of an Amateur M.D.: Jack London’s Death by Hubris
  15. 9. An Infamous Private Ailment: The Venereal Afflictions of James Joyce
  16. 10. “The Disease which was Bound to Claim Me Sooner Or Later”: Orwell’s Cough
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Bibliography and Endnotes

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