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Télécharger le livre : Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage
Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage
Amy Kenny
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...

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Parution : 2019-01-21
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Télécharger le livre : Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy
Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy
Anna Gasperini
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...

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Parution : 2019-01-18
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Télécharger le livre : Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Adam Colman
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...

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Parution : 2019-01-08
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Télécharger le livre : Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture
Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture
Manon Mathias , Alison M. Moore
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...

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Parution : 2018-11-17
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Télécharger le livre : Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Sara L. Crosby
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...

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Parution : 2018-09-14
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Télécharger le livre : Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Daniel Mccann , Claire Mckechnie-Mason
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...

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Parution : 2018-05-19
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Télécharger le livre : Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern
Hannah C. Tweed , Diane G. Scott
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...

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Parution : 2018-05-15
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Télécharger le livre : Tennyson and Geology
Tennyson and Geology
Michelle Geric
This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical...

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Parution : 2017-12-13
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Télécharger le livre : John Keats and the Medical Imagination
John Keats and the Medical Imagination
Nicholas Roe
This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the...

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Parution : 2017-12-06
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Télécharger le livre : Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas
Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas
Nina Gerassi-Navarro
This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón...

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Parution : 2017-11-15
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Télécharger le livre : Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Jenifer Buckley
This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination. Exploring medical, economic, moral, and...

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Parution : 2017-07-28
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Télécharger le livre : Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture
Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture
Monika Pietrzak-Franger
This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A rethinking of the disease with reference to its ambiguous status, and the ways of seeing that it generated, helps reconsider the network of...

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Parution : 2017-06-08
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Télécharger le livre : The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing
The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing
Martina Zimmermann
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person...

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Parution : 2017-06-07
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