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Studying in solitude: demythologising the masculine medical monopoly with Jane Barker’s Galesia and Tobias Smollett’s Sagely Get access

Laurence Sullivan
in Manchester Scholarship Online > Myth and (mis)information: Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture
Published: 16 April 2024
... practitioners Bartholin the Younger Caspar blood Crayle Benjamin Harvey William Willis Thomas Church of England the Haywood Eliza marriage problems of medical authority surgery Tobias Smollett Jane Barker A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies Roderick Random domestic medicine herbalism anatomy...
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Tobias Smollett, Novelist: Brutish or British?

Juliet Shields
in Oxford Handbook Topics in Literature
Published: 04 March 2015
...This article addresses Tobias Smollett’s exclusion from recent studies of the development of the eighteenth-century novel. Tracing continuities between Tobias Smollett’s most highly regarded novels, Roderick Random (1748) and Humphry Clinker (1771...
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‘A man of common understanding’: venereal disease, myth and reading as a protective practice in eighteenth-century Britain Get access

Declan Kavanagh
in Manchester Scholarship Online > Myth and (mis)information: Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture
Published: 16 April 2024
...In The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), Tobias Smollett reveals how undergoing treatment for a sexually transmitted infection in the eighteenth century was often enmeshed with ruinous personal experiences of economic and social precarity. Placing herself in ‘the hands of an advertising doctor...