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- Title
The Colonial Picturesque and the Medical Utility of Landscape Aesthetics.
- Authors
SENIOR, EMILY
- Abstract
The new sciences of medical geography and topography developed at the end of the eighteenth century and coincided with the literary and artistic fashion for the picturesque representation of landscape. This article explores the relationship between medical geography and the literary picturesque in the colonial Caribbean. It argues that literature and medicine borrowed formal and thematic qualities from one another, and reveals the influence of aesthetic ideals on the production of medical knowledge.
- Subjects
LITERATURE &; medicine; MEDICAL geography; 18TH century medical history; LANDSCAPES in literature; AESTHETICS literature; BECKFORD, William, 1760-1844; CHISHOLM, Colin; CARIBBEAN history; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 4, p505
- ISSN
1754-0194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1754-0208.12079