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Literature and Medicine

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"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
 

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