Sam Wiseman – författare

The work of English modernists in the 1920s and 1930s – particularly D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf – often expresses a fundamental ambivalence towards the social, cultural and technological developments of the period. These writers collectively embody the tensions and contradictions which infiltrate English modernism as the interwar period progresses, combining a profound sense of attachment to rural place and traditions with a similarly strong attraction to metropolitan modernity – the latter being associated with transience, possibility, literary innovation, cosmopolitanism, and new developments in technology and transportation. In this book, Sam Wiseman analyses key texts by these four authors, charting their respective attempts to forge new identities, perspectives and literary approaches that reconcile tradition and modernity, belonging and exploration, the rural and the metropolitan. This analysis is located within the context of ongoing critical debates regarding the relationship of English modernism with place, cosmopolitanism, and rural tradition; Wiseman augments this discourse by highlighting stylistic and thematic connections between the authors in question, and argues that these links collectively illustrate a distinctive, place-oriented strand of interwar modernism. Ecocritical and phenomenological perspectives are deployed to reveal similarities in their sense of human interrelationship with place, and a shared interest in particular themes and imagery; these include archaeological excavation, aerial perspectives upon place, and animism. Such concerns stem from specific technological and socio-cultural developments of the era. The differing engagements of these four authors with such changes collectively indicate a distinctive set of literary strategies, which aim to reconcile the tensions and contradictions inherent in their relationships with place.

This book provides an expert perspective, from some of the world’s leading surgeons, on the papers that have had the greatest impact in the field of thyroid and parathyroid surgery over the past decade.The broad range of topics covered will enable the reader to understand how recent research developments have led to changes in current thyroid and parathyroid surgical practice and represents an excellent resource for trainees at all levels preparing for specialty examinations.This book contains:Concise review and analysis of key papers by expert clinicians with each chapter focused on the most important aspects of the surgical management of thyroid and parathyroid diseaseEssential reading for students, residents, fellows and surgeons studying for their professional exams or wanting an update on the current thyroid and parathyroid surgery literatureCritical distillation of the diverse and expanding research over a broad range of topics from this field that includes investigation and management of benign and malignant thyroid disease, primary, secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism, thyroid and parathyroid surgery and surgical complicationsExpert analysis of the key contemporary papers and topics underlying the practice of endocrine neck surgery for general surgeons, otolaryngologists, head and neck surgeons, endocrine surgeons, trainees and other healthcare professionals

This book provides an expert perspective, from some of the world’s leading surgeons, on the papers that have had the greatest impact in the field of thyroid and parathyroid surgery over the past decade.The broad range of topics covered will enable the reader to understand how recent research developments have led to changes in current thyroid and parathyroid surgical practice and represents an excellent resource for trainees at all levels preparing for specialty examinations.This book contains:Concise review and analysis of key papers by expert clinicians with each chapter focused on the most important aspects of the surgical management of thyroid and parathyroid diseaseEssential reading for students, residents, fellows and surgeons studying for their professional exams or wanting an update on the current thyroid and parathyroid surgery literatureCritical distillation of the diverse and expanding research over a broad range of topics from this field that includes investigation and management of benign and malignant thyroid disease, primary, secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism, thyroid and parathyroid surgery and surgical complicationsExpert analysis of the key contemporary papers and topics underlying the practice of endocrine neck surgery for general surgeons, otolaryngologists, head and neck surgeons, endocrine surgeons, trainees and other healthcare professionals

The late-Victorian era hasbeen extensively researched as a period of Gothic literature, and this studyseeks to build upon this body of work by connecting the content of such studiesto the early decades of the twentieth century, which are less often seen interms of Gothic or supernatural literature. Beginning with the quintessentially urbanGothic space of fin de siècle London, as represented in classic texts such as Dracula and Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan, the study proceeds toask how the themes and energies which emerge in this moment evolve throughoutthe early twentieth century. In the ghost stories of authors like M.R. James,the Edwardian era witnesses an uncanny return to the rural English landscape,in which modernity encounters the re-emergence of suppressed fears and forces.After World War One, London again experiences a renewal of Gothic themes, withfigures such as D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot representing the city as astricken and desolate space, haunted by the trauma and ghosts of the recentconflict. That legacy of violence and loss is also evident in rural representationsof place in the 1920s and 1930s, along with a renewed interest insupernaturalism and paganism found in authors like Sylvia Townsend Warner andMary Butts. Ultimately, this study argues, this period of dramatic social andcultural change is shadowed by a corresponding evolution in Gothic literaryrepresentation, whether that is expressed through modernist experimentation ormore conventional narrative forms.