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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Ebook version : |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Mangham; Daniel Lea |
ISBN: | 9781786940520 1786940523 |
OCLC Number: | 1008763026 |
Description: | xii, 247 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Pt. One Enquiry and Experimentation -- 1. The Poetics of Anatomy: John Donne's Dissection of the Male Body / Jamie McKinstry -- 2. The Black Male Body in Early African American Science Fiction: The Experimental Case of Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio / Marlene D. Allen -- 3. Miserrimus Dexter: Monstrous Forms of the Fin de Siecle / Katherine Angell -- 4. 'Intellectual suicides': Tire Man of Letters in Middlemarch / Christine Crockett Sharp -- pt. Two Wounded and Psychopathologised Bodies -- 5. The Male Wound in Fin de Siecle Poetry / Sarah Parker -- 6. The Cacophony of Disaster: The Metaphorical Body of Sound in Don DeLillo's Falling Man / Inbar Kaminsky -- 7. 'Human Nature is Remorseless': Masculinity, Medical Science and Nervous Conditions in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway / Avishek Parui -- 8. 'A man must make himself: Hypochondria in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui / Robin Runia -- pt. Three Fear, Confusion and Contagion 9. 'Sons of Belial': Contaminated/Contaminating Victorian Male Bodies / Lesley A. Hall -- 10. Syphilis and Sociability: The Impolite Bodies of Two Gentlemen, James Boswell (1740 -- 1795) and Sylas Neville (1741 -- 1840) / Leigh Wetherall-Dickson -- 11. ''Tis My Father's Fault': Tristram Shandy and Paternal Imagination / Jenifer Buckley -- 12. Southern Gothic and the Queer Male Body / Thomas Lawrence Long. |
Series Title: | Liverpool English texts and studies, 72. |
Responsibility: | edited by Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea. |
Abstract:
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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Reviews'This volume will make an original and distinctive contribution to the fields of masculinities, gender studies, history of medicine, disabilities studies, literature, and studies of the body.'Joanne Ella Parsons, Bath Spa University 'He offers an account of the influence of dissection on Donne's poetry [...and] McKinstry builds gracefully on earlier studies, emphasizing how Donne uses dissection to confirm integrities beyond the reach of exposure.'Joseph Loewenstein, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (SEL) Read more...

