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Shakespeare'S Theater Of Nature - Science, Religion, And The Orders Of Mimesis In Early Modern Europe

by Aaron Kitch

~~158,34€~~ 142,51€ 10% OFF

 Shakespeareâ€™s Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with relations between words, images, and objects as sources of knowledge and pleasure.
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Epidemiological Realism

by Vincent Bruyere

~~52,99€~~ 47,69€ 10% OFF

 This book examines what it means to live in an epidemiological reality, exploring the worldbuilding properties of epidemiology through the lens of critical theory, literary analysis, and visual culture.
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Charlotte Bronte And Contagion - Myths, Memes, And The Politics Of Infection

by Jo Waugh

~~119,24€~~ 107,32€ 10% OFF

 This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë’s work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Villette (1853). This book establishes the ways in which Charlotte Brontë was closely engaged with the political and social contexts in which she wrote, extending this to the representation and metaphorical import of illness in Brontë’s novels. Waugh also posits that although miasmatic theories are often assumed to have been entirely in the ascendant in the late 1840s, the relationship between miasma and contagion was a complex one and contagion in fact remained a crucial way for Charlotte Brontë to represent disease itself, as well as to explore the relationships between the individual and social, political, and cultural contexts. Contagion and its metaphors are central to Charlotte Brontë’s construction of subjectivity and of the responsibilities of the individual and the group.
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Madness, Psychiatry, And Empire In Postcolonial Literature

by Chienyn Chi

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism to shed light on Césaire’s critique of psychological and medical discourses of the colonized’s mind. The book argues that the discourse of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis has erased the context of power in global histories of empire. Through the book’s chapters, Chi analyzes Lu Xun’s "A Madman’s Diary," Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions to assert that the misapprehension of madness should not automatically be accepted as the history of an isolated Western culture but rather that of the history of imperialism—a globalizing process that silences alternative cultural conceptions of the mind, of madness, and of behavior, as well as different interpretations of madness.
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William Blake'S Visions - Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia

by David Worrall

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blakeâ€™s visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blakeâ€™s insanity.
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Mathematics In Postmodern American Fiction

by Stuart J. Taylor

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices.
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Genetics And The Novel - Reimagining Life Through Fiction

by Paul Hamann-Rose

~~131,84€~~ 118,66€ 10% OFF

 Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the age of genetics.
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Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry

by Tana Jean Welch

~~131,84€~~ 118,66€ 10% OFF

 Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice.
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Narratives Of Women'S Health And Hysteria In The Nineteenth-Century Novel

by Melissa Rampelli

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 Narratives of Womenâ€™s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define womenâ€™s social, physical, and mental health.
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Mental Health Symptoms In Literature Since Modernism

by Nicolas Pierre Boileau

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 <div>Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism looks at various ways of treating symptoms of psychological disorders in the literature of the long twentieth century. This book shows that literature can, in its questioning of commonly accepted views of this lived experience of psychic symptoms, help engender new theories about the functioning of subjective cases. Modernism emerged at about the same time as Freudian psychoanalysis did and the aim of this book is to also show that to a certain extent, Woolf preceded Freud in her exploration of the symptom and contributed to fashioning another approach that is now more common, especially in writers from the 1990s-onwards. </div><div> </div>
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Science, Medicine, And Aristocratic Lineage In Victorian Popular Fiction

by Abigail Boucher

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 Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the highly visible an pathologized British aristocratic body. This books explores and complicates the two major portrayals of aristocrats in nineteenth-century literature: that of the medicalised, frail, debauched, and diseased aristocrat, and that of the heroic, active, beautiful ‘noble’, both of which are frequent and resonant in popular fiction of the long nineteenth century. Abigail Boucher argues that the concept of class in the long nineteenth century implicitly includes notions of blood, lineage, and bodily ‘correctness’, and that ‘class’ was therefore frequently portrayed as an empirical, scientific, and medical certainty. Due to their elevated and highly visual social positions, both historical and fictional aristocrats were frequently pathologized in the public mind and watchedfor signs of physical excellence or deviance. Using popular fiction, Boucher establishes patterns across decades, genres, and demographics and considers how these patterns react to, normalise, or feed into the advent of new scientific and medical understandings.
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Empire Under The Microscope - Parasitology And The British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935

by Emilie Taylor-Pirie

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 From Ancient Greece, to King Arthurâ€™s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today.
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Human Tissue In The Realist Novel, 1850-1895

by Ben Moore

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 This Pivot engages with current debates about anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene to propose a reappraisal of the realist novel in the second half of the nineteenth century. Through three case studies, it argues for ‘human tissue’ as a conceptual tool for reading that brings together biology, literature and questions of layering. This new approach is shown to be especially salient to the Victorian period, when the application of ‘tissue’ to biology first emerges. The book is distinctive in bringing together theoretical concerns around realism and the Anthropocene - two major topics in literary criticism - and presenting a new methodology to approach this conjunction, demonstrated through original readings of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, and Emile Zola and two English-language writers he influenced (George Moore and Vernon Lee).
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Women, Science And Fiction Revisited

by Debra Benita Shaw

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 Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world.
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Life, Death, And Consciousness In The Long Nineteenth Century

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 This book explores how the writers, poets, thinkers, historians, scientists, dilettantes and frauds of the long-nineteenth century addressed the â€œlimit casesâ€ regarding human existence that medicine continuously uncovered as it stretched the boundaries of knowledge.
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Alchemy, Paracelsianism, And Shakespeare'S The Winter'S Tale

by Martina Zamparo

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 This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeareâ€™s last plays, The Winterâ€™s Tale.
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Life Of Breath In Literature, Culture And Medicine - Classical To Contemporary

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 This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness.
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Nurse Memoirs From The Great War In Britain, France, And Germany

by Jerry Palmer

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 Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort.
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Emergence Of Neuroscience And The German Novel - Poetics Of The Brain

by Sonja Boos

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 The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novel’s development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how the novel’s formal properties—stylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurative—correlate with the formation of a neuroscientific discourse, and how the former may have assisted, disrupted, and/or intensified the medical articulation of neurological concepts. This study poses the question: how does this rapidly evolving field emerge in the context of nineteenth century cultural practices and what were the conditions for its emergence in the German-speaking world specifically? Where did neuroscience begin and how did it broaden in scope? And most crucially, to what degree does it owe its existence to literature?
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Humorality In Early Modern Art, Material Culture, And Performance

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 Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors from non-traditional, abstract, and materialist perspectives, considering the humorality of everyday objects, activities, and performance within the early modern period.
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Medical Identities And Print Culture, 1830s-1910s

by Alison Moulds

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 Drawing on medical journals and fiction, as well as professional advice guides and popular periodicals, this volume considers how images of medical practice and professionalism were formed in the cultural and medical imagination.
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Embryology And The Rise Of The Gothic Novel

by Diana Perez Edelman

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 This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Poetics Of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Postmodern Literature

by Iro Filippaki

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 The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and the emergent postmodern canon of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Energy, Ecocriticism, And Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Novel Ecologies

by Barri J. Gold

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 Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of our favorite booksâ€"Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and The War of the Worldsâ€"and the ways these shape our sense of ourselves as ecological beings.
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