Murky Waters. British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature, Hardback

Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the centrality of health in spa towns. -- .

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Author(s): Sophie Vasset
• Illustration(s): 8 Maps
• Number of pages: 304
• Collection: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Publication date: 2022
• Dimensions: 147 x 222 x 30
• Cover type: Hardback