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Author : Jessica Howell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484688
Study of malaria in literature and culture illuminates the legacies of nineteenth-century colonial medicine within narratives of illness.
Author : Emilie Taylor-Pirie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030847173
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur’s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today.
Author : Lauren Gillingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781009296564
Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : Will Abberley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108477598
The book reveals how Victorians biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations.
Author : Hosanna Krienke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108844840
This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : Lorenzo Servitje
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438481692
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 crisis," "a new weapon against antibiotic resistance," or "the immune system fights cancer" without considering their assumptions, implications, and history. But there is nothing natural about this language. It does not have to be, nor has it always been, the way to understand the relationship between humans and disease. Medicine Is War shows how this "martial metaphor" was popularized throughout the nineteenth century. Drawing on the works of Mary Shelley, Charles Kingsley, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad, Lorenzo Servitje examines how literary form reflected, reinforced, and critiqued the convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture. He considers how, in migrating from military medicine to the civilian sphere, this metaphor responded to the developments and dangers of modernity: urbanization, industrialization, government intervention, imperial contact, crime, changing gender relations, and the relationship between the one and the many. While cultural and literary scholars have attributed the metaphor to late nineteenth-century germ theory or immunology, this book offers a new, more expansive history stretching from the metaphor's roots in early nineteenth-century militarism to its consolidation during the rise of early twentieth-century pharmacology. In so doing, Servitje establishes literature's pivotal role in shaping what war has made thinkable and actionable under medicine's increasing jurisdiction in our lives. Medicine Is War reveals how, in our own moment, the metaphor remains conducive to harming as much as healing, to control as much as empowerment.
Author : Adam Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108493079
Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.
Author : Timothy Gao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108837163
Virtual, paracosmic, fictional -- Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte -- Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope -- Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray -- Description, projection, and Charles.
Author : Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009271820
At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : Anna M. Elsner,Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009300087
The experiences of health and illness, death and dying, the normal and the pathological have always been an integral part of literary texts. This volume considers how the two dynamic fields of medicine and literature have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It asks how medicine, as both science and practice, shapes the representation of illness and transforms literary form. It considers how literary texts across genres and languages of disease have put forward specific conceptions of medicine and impacted its practice. Taking into account the global, multilingual and multicultural contexts, this volume systematically outlines and addresses this double-sidedness of the literature-medicine connection. Literature and Medicine covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field.
Author : Rohan Deb Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107172364
This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Jeffrey Cohen,Stephanie Foote
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316510681
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the environmental humanities. It addresses the 21st century recognition of an environmental crisis.
Author : Rosalind Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009272018
The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by four extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. It focuses especially on four reprints: a 1929 edition of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878) with engravings by Clare Leighton, a 1930 edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) with images by Rockwell Kent, a 1943 edition of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) with woodblocks by Fritz Eichenberg, and a complete set of Jane Austen's novels (1786-1817) illustrated from 1957 to 1974 by Joan Hassall. Taken together, these reprints are indicative of a legacy crafted from historical distance, through personal, political, and artistic circumstance, and for a new century. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources as well as close readings of images and texts, this is a richly illustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.
Author : Francesca Mackenney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009084086
In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
Author : Amy M. King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108492959
Explores how natural theology features in both early Victorian natural histories and English provincial realist novels of the same period.