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Physiology of Love and Other Writings /

Physician, anthropologist, travel writer, novelist, politician, Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) was probably the most eclectic figure in late-nineteenth century Italian culture. A prolific writer, Mantegazza can be seen as a forerunner of what has come to be known as cultural studies on account of his...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mantegazza, Paolo, 1831-1910
Other Authors: Pireddu, Nicoletta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The physiology of love
  • From On the hygienic and medicinal virtues of the coca plant and on nervine nourishment in general
  • From One day in Madeira: a page in the hygiene of love
  • From A voyage to Lapland with my friend Stephen Sommier
  • From India
  • From Epicurus: essay in a physiology of the beautiful
  • From The neurosic century
  • From the tartuffe century
  • From Head: or, sowing ideas to create new deeds
  • From Political memoirs of a foot soldier in the Italian parliament
  • From The year 3000: a dream
  • From 'The psychology of translations'.