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Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability
Inbunden, 2017
1074 kr
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This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres — ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays — Stanback demonstrates the extent to which non-normative embodiment was …
Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
Ravenous Natures
Av Alanna Skuse
Inbunden, 2015
359 kr
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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern …
Staging Science
Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen
Inbunden, 2015
760 kr
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This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Performances include demonstrations of technologies, experiments that look like theatre, theatre that looks like science, tourist representations and natural history film-making. …
Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious
Av Markus Iseli
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally.
Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century
Prophecy, Imagination and Nationhood
Inbunden, 2017
1388 kr
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This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Second sight is a form of prophetic vision associated with the folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Described in Gaelic as the An-da-shealladh or ‘the two sights’, those in possession of this …
Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
Inbunden, 2015
1388 kr
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Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson, Jones highlights how personal experiences of illness and disease frequently reflect larger societal …
Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination
Heredity Rules in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary …
Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Dreadful Passions
Av Daniel McCann, Claire McKechnie-Mason
Inbunden, 2018
1262 kr
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This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical manifestations, in the …
Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
Ravenous Natures
Av Alanna Skuse
Häftad, 2015
259 kr
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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern …
Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery
From Copernicus to Flamsteed
Inbunden, 2016
1262 kr
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The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one's conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one's beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex …
Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2016
635 kr
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This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social …
Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840
‘Electrick Communication Every Where’
Inbunden, 2017
1388 kr
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This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a result, debates about the …
Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel
Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine
Inbunden, 2016
635 kr
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This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging …
Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Fashioning the Unfashionable
Av Allan Ingram, Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Inbunden, 2017
1388 kr
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This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period …
Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo
Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Inbunden, 2016
635 kr
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This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, …
Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2018
635 kr
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This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social …
Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840
‘Electrick Communication Every Where’
Häftad, 2018
1388 kr
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This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a result, debates about the …
Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel
Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine
Häftad, 2018
635 kr
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This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging …
Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Fashioning the Unfashionable
Av Allan Ingram, Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Häftad, 2018
1388 kr
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This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in which writing of the period …
Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo
Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Häftad, 2018
635 kr
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This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, …
Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Av Adam Colman
Inbunden, 2019
901 kr
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This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature focuses especially on formal invention—on the uses …
Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture
Av Manon Mathias, Alison M. Moore
Inbunden, 2018
1560 kr
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This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and metaphorical digestion in different spheres of …
Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage
Av Amy Kenny
Inbunden, 2019
961 kr
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This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism applied the four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—to delineate women as porous, …
Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara
Häftad, 2018
605 kr
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This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this …
Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
Dissecting the Page
Av Hannah C. Tweed, Diane G. Scott
Häftad, 2018
1083 kr
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This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic …
Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy
The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act
Inbunden, 2019
1023 kr
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This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy. In 1832, the controversial Anatomy Act sanctioned the use of the body of the pauper for teaching dissection to medical …
Transplant Fictions
A Cultural Study of Organ Exchange
Inbunden, 2019
961 kr
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Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness. But despite these transgressions, organ transplant is a …
Transplant Fictions
A Cultural Study of Organ Exchange
Häftad, 2020
687 kr
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Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness. But despite these transgressions, organ transplant is a …
Creating Romantic Obsession
Scorpions in the Mind
Inbunden, 2019
1023 kr
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Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era’s anxieties. Using a number of …
Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage
Av Darryl Chalk, Mary Floyd-Wilson
Inbunden, 2019
1560 kr
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This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays focused on early modern drama and the culture of theater, contributors explore how ideas of contagion not only inform representations of the …
