E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Servitje Medicine Is War
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8169-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture
E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8169-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
1. Denaturing the Emergent Martial Metaphor in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
2. Charles Kingsley Meets Cholera Face-to-Face
PART II
3. Military Pasts and Medical Futures in Bram Stoker's Dracula
4. Arthur Conan Doyle's Imperial Armamentarium
5. Modernist Refractions of Tropical Medicine in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Collateral Damage: An Afterword
Addendum: A Surge of Epilogics in the Midst of the War against COVID-19
Notes
Bibliography
Index