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The male body in medicine and literature /
With the dawn of modern medicine there emerged a complex range of languages and methodologies for portraying the male body as prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in lite...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
LIVERPOOL UNIV Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | JSTOR EBA.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part One: Enquiry and Experimentation; 1. The Poetics of Anatomy: John Donne's Dissection of the Male Body; 2. The Black Male Body in Early African American Science Fiction: The Experimental Case of Sutton Grigg's Imperium in Imperio; 3. Miserrimus Dexter: Monstrous Forms of the Fin de Siècle; 4. 'Intellectual suicides': The Man of Letters in Middlemarch; Part Two: Wounded and Psychopathologised Bodies; 5. The Male Wound in Fin-de-Siècle Poetry.
- 6. The Cacophony of Disaster: The Metaphorical Body of Sound in Don DeLillo's Falling Man7. 'Human Nature is Remorseless': Masculinity, Medical Science and Nervous Conditions in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway; 8. 'A man must make himself': Hypochondria in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui; Part Three: Fear, Confusion and Contagion; 9. 'Sons of Belial': Contaminated/Contaminating Victorian Male Bodies; 10. Syphilis and Sociability: The Impolite Bodies of Two Gentlemen, James Boswell (1740-1795) and Sylas Neville (1741-1840); 11. ''Tis My Father's Fault': Tristram Shandy and Paternal Imagination.