Male Body in Medicine and Literature

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Mangham is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Reading, author of 'Dickens's Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence' (Ohio State University Press, 2017) and 'Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), editor of 'The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction' (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-editor of 'The Female Body in Medicine and Literature' (Liverpool University Press, 2011). Daniel Lea is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of 'George Orwell: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2001), 'Graham Swift' (Manchester University Press, 2005) and 'Twenty-first Century Fiction: Contemporary British Voices' (Manchester University Press, 2016), and co-editor of 'Posting the Male: Masculinities in Post-War and Contemporary Writing' (Brill, 2003). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Andrew Mangham, Andrew (Department of English Literature Mangham, Andrew Lea Mangham, Andrew Lyon Mangham
• Assisted by: Daniel Lea (Editor), Daniel (Department of English and Modern Languages Lea (Editor), Andrew Mangham (Editor), Andrew (Department of English Literature Mangham (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781786940520
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-052-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and Studies; Liverpool English Texts and St
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General