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Joyce, medicine, and modernity /

Vike Plock balances close readings of Joyce's major texts with thorough archival research that retrieves principal late 19th- and early 20th-century medical debates. The result is a fascinating book that details the ways in which Joyce reconciled, integrated, and blurred the paradigmatic bounda...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plock, Vike Martina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, ©2010.
Colección:Florida James Joyce series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Joyce and modern medicine
  • Alcoh alcoho alcoherently: alcoholism and doubling in Counterparts
  • The heinous sin of self-pollution: medicine and morals in A portrait of the artist as a young man
  • The true purefoy nose: medicine, obstetrics, and the aesthetics of reproduction in Oxen of the sun
  • Nerves overstrung: neuroscience and ergography in Eumaeus
  • On the hands down: Eugen Sandow and physical culture in Ithaca
  • Jack the Ripper and The family physician: gynecology and domestic medicine in Penelope.