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Transfusion : Blood and Sympathy in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination /
"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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chaarlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 role in now-canonical works such as H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as in an array of lesser-known short stories and novels."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (294 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813943145 |