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  • - The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act
    av Anna Gasperini
    950,-

    This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, and Victorian anatomy.

  • - Dissecting the Page
     
    1 336,-

    This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. Discussing the development of medical paratexts across scribal, print and digital media, the collection spans the medieval period to the twenty-first century.

  • av John G. Fitch
    606,-

    This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; The book also discusses some of the obstacles to a 'poetry of knowledge', including scientific objectivism, the Kantian tradition in philosophy, and the separation of the 'two cultures' in our academic and intellectual institutions.

  • av Emily B. Stanback
    1 276,-

    The book reassesses well-known literary and medical works by such authors as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Humphry Davy, argues for the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.

  • - Poetry and Poetics
    av Michelle Geric
    1 116 - 1 350,-

    This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson's major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-3).

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    1 846,-

    This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17.

  • - Prophecy, Imagination and Nationhood
    av Elsa Richardson
    1 686,-

    This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Focusing on the nineteenth century, this book examines second sight in relation to mesmerism and phrenology, modern spiritualism and anthropology, romance literature and folklorism and finally, psychical research and Celtic mysticism.

  • - The Maternal Imagination
    av Jenifer Buckley
    1 510,-

    This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination.

  • - 'Electrick Communication Every Where'
    av Mary Fairclough
    1 666,-

    The book analyses attempts by both elite and popular practitioners of electricity to elucidate the mysteries of electricity, and traces the figurative uses of electrical language in the works of writers including Mary Robinson, Edmund Burke, Erasmus Darwin, John Thelwall, Mary Shelley and Richard Carlile.

  • av Martina Zimmermann
    406,-

    and second, committed alleviation of caregiver burden through social support systems and altered healthcare policies requires significantly altered views about aging, dementia, and Alzheimer's patients.

  • av David Thorley
    796,-

    This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social and religious frameworks by which illness was more commonly recorded and understood.

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