Medicine Is War - The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lorenzo Servitje is Assistant Professor of Literature and Medicine at Lehigh University. He has published several books, including Syphilis and Subjectivity: From the Victorians to the Present (coedited with Kari Nixon); Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory (coedited with Kari Nixon); and The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image (coedited with Sherryl Vint).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lorenzo Servitje, Servitje Lorenzo
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781438481685
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8168-5
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: SUNY Series, Studies in the Lo; SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; HISTORY / Military / General, military history, MEDICAL / History, Ireland, History of Medicine, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism