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A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay. In