| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Vital transactions -- Transfusing souls : the dead end of sympathy -- "Interesting experiments" and "curious operations" : transfusion as medical news -- The transfused transformed : fictions of transfusion in the periodical press -- "Miraculously re-embodied" : William Delisle Hay's Blood : a tragic tale -- Surgical vampirism : the afterlife of bloodletting -- Delivering Lucy : vampire obstetrics in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Coda : the call to arms. |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Blood -- Symbolic aspects.
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Blood -- Symbolic aspects. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Blood and sympathy in the nineteenth-century literary imagination |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kibbie, Ann Louise, 1959- Transfusion. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019 |
| ISBN |
9780813943145 (electronic book) |
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0813943140 (electronic book) |
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9780813943138 (electronic book) |
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0813943132 (electronic book) |
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