Spa culture and literature in England, 1500-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…The sense of place in Jane Austens Northanger Abbey and Persuasion -- PART II: Taking the Waters: Myth, Recreation and Satire -- Chapter 6: Bath and Bladud: The Progress of a Wayward Myth -- Chapter 7: Creatures of the Bath: Transformations at the Early Modern British Spa -- Chapter 8: Bathing in Verse: Christopher Ansteys The New Bath Guide and Georgian Resort Satire -- Chapter 9: For Music is wholesome the Doctors all think: The Curative and Restorative Function of Music in Eighteenth-Century English Spas.…”