Tous les livres numériques de la collection Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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Emily Russell Transplant Fictions Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness. But despite these transgressions,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-04-17 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 68,96 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Kathleen Béres Rogers Creating Romantic Obsession Most of us have, at one time, been obsessed with something, but how did obsession become a mental illness? This book examines literary, medical, and philosophical texts to argue that what we call obsession became a disease in the Romantic era and reflects the era’s... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-03-29 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 102,84 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Amy Kenny Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism applied the four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—to... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-01-21 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 96,79 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Anna Gasperini Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy. In 1832, the controversial Anatomy Act sanctioned the use of the body of the pauper for teaching... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-01-18 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 102,84 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Adam Colman Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature focuses especially on... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-01-08 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 90,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Manon Mathias , Alison M. Moore Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific research fields. Bringing together eleven scholars with wide interdisciplinary expertise, the volume examines literal and metaphorical digestion in... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-11-17 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 145,19 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Sara L. Crosby Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-09-14 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 60,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Daniel Mccann , Claire Mckechnie-Mason Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-05-19 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 108,89 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hannah C. Tweed , Diane G. Scott Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-05-15 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 108,89 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Michelle Geric Tennyson and Geology This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-12-13 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 90,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Nicholas Roe John Keats and the Medical Imagination This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-12-06 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 145,19 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Nina Gerassi-Navarro Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico during the nineteenth century. Gerassi-Navarro brings together U.S. and Latin American Studies with her analysis of the travel narratives of Frances Calderón... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-11-15 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 60,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Emily B. Stanback The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres — ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays — Stanback demonstrates the extent to which... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-10-25 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 102,84 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Jenifer Buckley Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination. Exploring medical, economic, moral, and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-07-28 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 108,89 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Monika Pietrzak-Franger Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A rethinking of the disease with reference to its ambiguous status, and the ways of seeing that it generated, helps reconsider the network of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-06-08 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 133,09 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Martina Zimmermann The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-06-07 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Elsa Richardson Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Second sight is a form of prophetic vision associated with the folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Described in Gaelic as the An-da-shealladh or ‘the two sights’,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-06-02 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 120,99 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Mary Fairclough Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840 This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-03-27 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 120,99 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Allan Ingram , Leigh Wetherall Dickson Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-02-23 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 120,99 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Maureen Tuthill Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-09-26 Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Format(s) : PDF, ePub 60,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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