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1 online resource |
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JSTOR EBA.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part One: Enquiry and Experimentation; 1. The Poetics of Anatomy: John Donne's Dissection of the Male Body; 2. The Black Male Body in Early African American Science Fiction: The Experimental Case of Sutton Grigg's Imperium in Imperio; 3. Miserrimus Dexter: Monstrous Forms of the Fin de Siècle; 4. 'Intellectual suicides': The Man of Letters in Middlemarch; Part Two: Wounded and Psychopathologised Bodies; 5. The Male Wound in Fin-de-Siècle Poetry. |
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6. The Cacophony of Disaster: The Metaphorical Body of Sound in Don DeLillo's Falling Man7. 'Human Nature is Remorseless': Masculinity, Medical Science and Nervous Conditions in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway; 8. 'A man must make himself': Hypochondria in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui; Part Three: Fear, Confusion and Contagion; 9. 'Sons of Belial': Contaminated/Contaminating Victorian Male Bodies; 10. Syphilis and Sociability: The Impolite Bodies of Two Gentlemen, James Boswell (1740-1795) and Sylas Neville (1741-1840); 11. ''Tis My Father's Fault': Tristram Shandy and Paternal Imagination. |
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With the dawn of modern medicine there emerged a complex range of languages and methodologies for portraying the male body as prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in literature and culture. |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Men in literature.
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Men in literature. |
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Masculinity in literature.
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Masculinity in literature. |
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Impotence in literature.
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Impotence in literature. |
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Human body in literature.
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Medicine in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Literature and medicine -- History.
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Medicine in literature. |
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Literature and medicine. |
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History. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Print version: 1786940523 9781786940520 (OCoLC)1008763026 |
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9781786948700 (electronic book) |
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1786948702 (electronic book) |
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1786940523 |
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9781786940520 |
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