The Albums of James Tissot
The Albums of James Tissot

Author: Willard E. Misfeldt

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780879722104

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Artist James Tissot compiled photographs of his work in three albums, which are reproduced in this book.

Victorian Vulgarity
Victorian Vulgarity

Author: Susan David Bernstein

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780754664055

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In Victorian England, vulgarity, first used to define language use and class position, became implicated in behavior, material possessions, sexuality, and race. Victorian Vulgarity explores vulgarity's troubled history through dictionaries and grammars; essays, journalism and visual art; and fiction by Dickens, Eliot, Gissing, and Trollope. Neither dismissing nor reveling in vulgarity's myriad temptations, the contributors invite readers to consider the concept's implications for today's writers and artists.

Enlightenment and Pathology
Enlightenment and Pathology

Author: Anne C. Vila

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780801858093

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If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to tell. Author Anne Vila shows that multiple junctures between the body and the mind promoted a steady commerce of speculation and discussion between science and the social salons of the time. 9 illustrations.

The Popularization of Medicine
The Popularization of Medicine

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1135086990

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In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be doctors, such books gave simple advice for home treatments, while commonly warning of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wive's tales and faith-healing. The Popularization of Medicine explores the rise of this form of people's medicine, from the early days of printing to the Victorian age, focusing on the different experiences of Britain, the Continent and North America.