Literature and Medicine

"Literature and Medicine considers how these two dynamic fields have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field"--

About the author

Anna M. Elsner (BA Oxon MA PhD Cantab) is Associate Professor of French Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of St Gallen. She is PI of the ERC project ASSISTED and was awarded the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize 2022 for outstanding women researchers by the Swiss National Science Foundation.Monika Pietrzak-Franger is Professor of British Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Vienna and specializes in Medical Humanities, adaptation, transmediality and (neo-)Victorianism. She is PI of the interuniversity cluster Post-Covid-19 Care. She received the BritCult Award (2015) for her VW-founded project Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture (2014).

Summary

Literature and Medicine considers how these two dynamic fields have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field.

Foreword

This volume considers how the fields of medicine and literature have crossed over and developed alongside one another.

Product details

• Assisted by: Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Editor), Pietrzak-Franger Monika (Editor), Anna M. Elsner (Editor)
• Authors: Anna M. (Universitat St Gallen Elsner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781009300063
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0930006-3
• Pages: 406
• Series: Cambridge Critical Concepts
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; History of Medicine; Literary studies: general; Literary theory