Transfusion : blood and sympathy in the nineteenth-century literary imagination /

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"Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials. This study explores transfusion's rol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kibbie, Ann Louise, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chaarlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Temas:
1800-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Blood > Symbolic aspects.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Sang > Aspect symbolique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gothic & Romance.
Blood > Symbolic aspects
English literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Vital transactions
  • Transfusing souls : the dead end of sympathy
  • "Interesting experiments" and "curious operations" : transfusion as medical news
  • The transfused transformed : fictions of transfusion in the periodical press
  • "Miraculously re-embodied" : William Delisle Hay's Blood : a tragic tale
  • Surgical vampirism : the afterlife of bloodletting
  • Delivering Lucy : vampire obstetrics in Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • Coda : the call to arms.

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