Medical Storyworlds - Health, Illness, Bodies in Russian European Literature At Turn of

About the author

Elena Fratto is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.

Summary

Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Fratto
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2021
• EAN: 9780231202329
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20232-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, literary criticism; social science; literature and medicine