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Author:
Servitje, Lorenzo, 1983- author.
Title:
Medicine is war : the martial metaphor in Victorian literature and culture / Lorenzo Servitje.
Publisher:
State University of New York Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xiii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
1800-1899
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Diseases in literature.
War in literature.
Medicine, Military--Great Britain--History--19th century.
War--Medical aspects.
Diseases in literature.
English fiction.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine, Military.
War in literature.
War--Medical aspects.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Denaturing the emergent martial metaphor in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Charles Kingsley meets cholera face-to-face -- Military pasts and medical futures in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Arthur Conan Doyle's imperial armamentarium -- Modernist refractions of tropical medicine in Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness -- Collateral dmanage: an afterward -- Addendum: A surge of epilogics in the midst of the war against COVID-19.
Series:
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
ISBN:
1438481683
9781438481685
9781438481678
1438481675
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1194957733
LCCN:
2020017342
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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