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Afterlife of Used Things

Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

729 kr

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Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. “The environment” may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.

Afterlife of Used Things

Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century

AvAriane Fennetaux,Amélie Junquam. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

2 460 kr

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Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. “The environment” may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.

Medicine and Narration in the Eighteenth Century

AvSophie Vasset

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

1 848 kr

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How did doctors argue in eighteenth-century medical pamphlet wars? How literary, or clinical, is Diderot’s depiction of mad nuns? What is at stake in the account of a cataract operation at the beginning of Jean-Paul’s novel Hesperus? In this pioneering volume, contributors extend current research at the intersection of medicine and literature by examining the overlapping narrative strategies in the writings of both novelists and doctors.Focusing on a wide variety of sources, an interdisciplinary team of researchers explores the nature and function of narration as an underlying principle of such writing. From a reading of correspondence between doctors as a means of continuing professional education, to the use of inoculation as a plotting device, or an examination of Diderot’s physiological approach to mental illness in La Religieuse, contributors highlight:how doctors exploited rhetorical techniques in both clinical writing and correspondence with patients.how novelists incorporated medical knowledge into their narratives.how models such as case-histories or narrative poetry were adopted and transformed in both fictional and actual medical writing.how these narrative strategies shaped the way in which doctors, patients and illnesses were represented and perceived in the eighteenth century.

Afterlife of Used Things

Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century

AvSophie Vasset,Amelie Junquam. fl.

E-bok

Engelska, 2014

836 kr

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Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. “The environment” may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.

Afterlife of Used Things

Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century

AvSophie Vasset,Amelie Junquam. fl.

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2014

836 kr

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Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. “The environment” may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.

Del 5 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century

AvRebecca Anne Barr,Sylvie Kleiman-Lafonm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

1 253 kr

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This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing attention to the deeper workings of the self. Moving beyond recent studies of luxury and conspicuous consumption, where dysfunctional bowels have been represented as a symptom of excess, this book seeks to explore other manifestations of the visceral and to explain how the bowels played a crucial part in eighteenth-century emotions and perceptions of the self. The collection offers an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on entrails and digestion by addressing urban history, visual studies, literature, medical history, religious history, and material culture in England, France, and Germany.

Del 15 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century

AvRebecca Anne Barr,Sylvie Kleiman-Lafonm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

428 kr

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This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing attention to the deeper workings of the self. Moving beyond recent studies of luxury and conspicuous consumption, where dysfunctional bowels have been represented as a symptom of excess, this book seeks to explore other manifestations of the visceral and to explain how the bowels played a crucial part in eighteenth-century emotions and perceptions of the self. The collection offers an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on entrails and digestion by addressing urban history, visual studies, literature, medical history, religious history, and material culture in England, France and Germany.

Del 17 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Murky Waters

British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature

AvSophie Vasset

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

1 185 kr

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Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of 'murkiness', it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the gender fluidity of users to the local and national political dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a pinch of salt to health-related discourses.

Del 17 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Murky Waters

British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature

AvSophie Vasset

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

351 kr

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Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of 'murkiness', it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the gender fluidity of users to the local and national political dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a pinch of salt to health-related discourses.

Décrire, prescrire, guérir

AvSophie Vasset

E-bok

PDF, Franska, 2013

468 kr

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En suivant les trois étapes de la démarche médicale décrire, prescrire, guérir cette étude interdisciplinaire examine comment les discours fictionnels et médicaux du XVIIIe siècle se rejoignent, s''opposent et se répondent. Sophie Vasset analyse la fiction anglaise de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle (Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne) en regard de la médecine populaire de la même époque. Certains éléments du discours médical sont en effet évoqués par les écrivains pour justifier leur entreprise littéraire. De même, la médecine utilise le récit et emploie des métaphores qu''elle partage avec la fiction. Ainsi, les médecins comme les écrivains cherchent à représenter le corps vivant dans tous ses états, de la douleur au plaisir, et à définir des principes de vie, qu''ils traquent par de multiples stratégies narratives. Les auteurs de fiction, comme ceux de la médecine populaire et didactique, développent à leur tour de nombreuses stratégies prescriptives : la lecture est censée aider à organiser sa vie quotidienne et guider la façon de s''occuper de son corps. Enfin, la fiction comme la médecine promettent de guérir par l''exercice physique et la purge, la pensée et le rire. La satire, par exemple, opère un traitement corrosif mais « nécessaire » que les écrivains comparent à la violence des traitements infligés aux patients.

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Afterlife of Used Things

Afterlife of Used Things

Medicine and Narration in the Eighteenth Century

Afterlife of Used Things

Afterlife of Used Things

Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century

Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century

Murky Waters

Murky Waters

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