Empire under the microscope : parasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885-1935 / / Emilie Taylor-Pirie |
Autore | Taylor-Pirie Emilie |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 pages) |
Disciplina | 823.8093561 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism Literature and medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century Literature and medicine - Great Britain - History - 20th century Medical parasitology - History - 19th century Medical parasitology - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 3-030-84717-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire -- 2. The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology -- 3. Expeditions into ‘Central Man’: Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity -- 4. Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze -- 5. Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter -- 6. Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique -- 7. Epilogue: Pan Narrans. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910510544903321 |
Taylor-Pirie Emilie | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895 / / by Ben Moore |
Autore | Moore Ben |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (107 pages) |
Disciplina | 823.8093561 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 19th century
Ecocriticism Medicine and the humanities Science - History Nineteenth-Century Literature Medical Humanities History of Science |
ISBN |
9783031266409
9783031266393 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Human Tissue -- Chapter 1 Becoming-evolutionary?: Animal Transformations in Alton Locke -- Chapter 2 Allegorical Realism and the Figure of the Human in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch -- Chapter 3 Zola, Moore, Lee and the Vivisectional Novel -- Conclusion: The Primitive Tissue of Realism. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910682569203321 |
Moore Ben | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction / / Valerie Pedlar [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Pedlar Valerie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 823.8093561 |
Collana | Liverpool English texts and studies |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Mental illness in literature Men in literature Men - Mental health |
Soggetto non controllato |
victoriaans
male madness mannen victorian gekte Charles Dickens Dracula Insanity Masculinity Renfield |
ISBN |
1-78138-773-7
1-84631-418-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Insurrection and imagination : idiocy and Barnaby Rudge -- Thwarted lovers : Basil and Maud -- Wrongful confinement, sensationalism and Hard cash -- Madness and marriage -- The zoophagus maniac : madness and degeneracy in Dracula. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996218386303316 |
Pedlar Valerie | ||
Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction / / Valerie Pedlar [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Pedlar Valerie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 823.8093561 |
Collana | Liverpool English texts and studies |
Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Mental illness in literature Men in literature Men - Mental health |
Soggetto non controllato |
victoriaans
male madness mannen victorian gekte Charles Dickens Dracula Insanity Masculinity Renfield |
ISBN |
1-78138-773-7
1-84631-418-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Insurrection and imagination : idiocy and Barnaby Rudge -- Thwarted lovers : Basil and Maud -- Wrongful confinement, sensationalism and Hard cash -- Madness and marriage -- The zoophagus maniac : madness and degeneracy in Dracula. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143983603321 |
Pedlar Valerie | ||
Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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