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Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 348

Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture

Authors: Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-08 - Publisher: Springer

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This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A rethinking of the disease with r
Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 226

Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Authors: Sibylle Baumbach
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-20 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products ‘as t
Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture
Language: en
Pages: 311

Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture

Authors: Will Abberley
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The book reveals how Victorians biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations.
Itch, Clap, Pox
Language: en
Pages: 280

Itch, Clap, Pox

Authors: Noelle Gallagher
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-29 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and artIn eighteenth-century Britain, venereal
Medicine Is War
Language: en
Pages: 419

Medicine Is War

Authors: Lorenzo Servitje
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as "the war against the coronavirus," "the front lines of the Ebola cri

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