PART I: Generic Explorations: Baths and Waters in Poetry, Drama and Prose
Chapter 1: Bathing ... in origane and thyme Baths in Spensers The Faerie Queene
Chapter 2: Fountain, Waters and Spas in John Websters The Duchess of Malfi: From Blood Baths to Turkish delights
Chapter 3: Taking the Cure: Mineral Waters and Loves Folly in Lady Mary Wroths The Countess of Montgomerys Urania
Chapter 4: Bristol and Bath in Frances Burneys Evelina
Chapter 5: Oh! Who can ever be tired of Bath? The sense of place in Jane Austens Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
PART II: Taking the Waters: Myth, Recreation and Satire
Chapter 6: Bath and Bladud: The Progress of a Wayward Myth
Chapter 7: Creatures of the Bath: Transformations at the Early Modern British Spa
Chapter 8: Bathing in Verse: Christopher Ansteys The New Bath Guide and Georgian Resort Satire
Chapter 9: For Music is wholesome the Doctors all think: The Curative and Restorative Function of Music in Eighteenth-Century English Spas.-PART III: Emerging Science: The Therapeutic Uses of Waters
Chapter 10: Water of Paradise : The Role and Function of Balneology in Bacon's New Atlantis, De vijs mortis and Historia vitae et mortis
Chapter 11: Minerals in Winter : Robert Witties Cold Treatment
Chapter 12: Mineral Waters as a Treatment for Barrenness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Chapter 13: Drowning in Health: Murky Perceptions of Mineral Water and Alcohol in Eighteenth-Century Medical Literature and Social Mores
Coda: New ecocritical perspectives
Chapter 14: All is Deep: All is Shallow.