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This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
This Long Disease, My Life: Alexander Pope and the Sciences
Contributors:
By (Author) Marjorie Hope Nicolson
By (author) George Sebastian Rousseau
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Dewey:
821.5
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
330
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
624g
Description
When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to "this long disease, my life," his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime. With technical advice from several physicians, the authors present the first medical case history of the poet. Drawin
