Medicine Is War : the Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture /

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor. Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as "the war against the coronavirus," &...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Servitje, Lorenzo, 1983-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
Colección:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Diseases in literature.
War in literature.
Medicine, Military > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
War > Medical aspects.
Medicine in Literature
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Maladies dans la littérature.
Guerre dans la littérature.
Médecine militaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Guerre > Aspect médical.
English fiction.
Medicine, Military.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Denaturing the emergent martial metaphor in Mary Shelley's The last man
  • Charles Kingsley meets cholera face-to-face
  • Military pasts and medical futures in Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • Arthur Conan Doyle's imperial armamentarium
  • Modernist refractions of tropical medicine in Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness
  • Collateral dmanage: an afterward
  • Addendum: A surge of epilogics in the midst of the war against COVID-19.

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