Colonel Cundum’s Domain
Clare Bucknell: Nose, no nose, 18 July 2019
Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the 18th-Century Imagination
by Noelle Gallagher.
Yale, 288 pp., £55, March 2019,978 0 300 21705 6 Show More
by Noelle Gallagher.
Yale, 288 pp., £55, March 2019,
“... characteristic of the unsettling social narratives the pox or the clap could be used to tell. As Noelle Gallagher shows in her elegant book, venereal disease was intellectually and imaginatively useful in this period: the obscurity, changeability and shiftiness people saw in its symptoms could be turned outwards. As a metaphor the pox had a rare ... ”
