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Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture

Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility
BuchGebunden
339 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am26.06.20171st ed. 2017
This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This book is the first large-scale interdisciplinary study of syphilis in late Victorian Britain whose significance lies in its unprecedented attention to the multimedia and multi-discursive evocations of syphilis.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextThis book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This book is the first large-scale interdisciplinary study of syphilis in late Victorian Britain whose significance lies in its unprecedented attention to the multimedia and multi-discursive evocations of syphilis.
Zusammenfassung
Examines cultural representations of syphilis across media.

Looks at the implications of syphilis for late Victorian culture.

Goes beyond the traditional gender-race-class approach to the disease
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-319-49534-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum26.06.2017
Auflage1st ed. 2017
ReihePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Seiten339 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht582 g
IllustrationenXIV, 339 p. 17 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.40917521

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Ways of Seeing.- Chapter 1: Aetiology and Etymology: Concepts, Bodies, Media.- Chapter 2: Recognizing Syphilis: Pornographic Knowledge and the Politics of Explanation.- Chapter 3: Facing Pathology: Modern (Re)Production of Difference.- Chapter 4: Prophylaxis and Treatment: Geopolitics of Differentiation.- Chapter 5: (Eugenic) Utopias: National Future and Individual Suffering.- Conclusion: "Uncomfortable Proximity" and the Ethics of Display.- Bibliography.- Index.mehr
Kritik
"The book offers an ambitious and impressively researched study of syphilis in late Victorian Britain. ... Pietrzak-Franger has produced an impressive and insightful piece of research ... . the monograph is a rewarding read, offering various avenues for further research, not only for scholars working in Victorian studies and the medical humanities, but for anyone interested in the intersections of literature, culture, visual studies and the history of medicine." (Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, Anglia, Vol. (139) 1, 2021)
"Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture is a thoughtful, well-researched, and provocative piece of research that uncovers the complexities of the representation of syphilis, its subtle and not so subtle symbolic functions in Victorian culture, and the part it plays still today in articulating social and political anxieties about nationhood and identity." (Jane Desmarais, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 63 (1), 2020)
"This work provides a useful lense for Victorian perspectives on syphilis, offering the potential for parallels to be drawn with more recent times. ... Pietrzak-Franger has produceda comprehensive and incisive piece of criticism, made all the more impressive for previous lack of attention to the cultural meanings of syphilis." (Joe Holloway, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, February, 2018)mehr

Autor

Monika Pietrzak-Franger is Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She has published widely on Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, gender, medicine, visual culture and adaptation. She is author of The Male Body and Masculinity (2007), editor of Women, Beauty, and Fashion (2014) and co-editor of Neo-Victorianism and Globalisation (2015), Disease, Communication and the Ethics of (In)Visibility (2014), and Reflecting on Darwin (2014).