Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture

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This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A rethinking of the disease with reference to its ambiguous status, and the ways of seeing that it generated, helps reconsider the network of socio-cultural and political interrelations which were negotiated through syphilis, thereby also raising larger questions about its function in the construction of individual, national and imperial identities. This book is the first large-scale interdisciplinary study of syphilis in late Victorian Britain whose significance lies in its unprecedented attention to the multimedia and multi-discursive evocations of syphilis. An examination of the heterogeneous sources that it offers, many of which have up to this point escaped critical attention, makes it possible to reveal the complex and poly-ideological reasons for the activation of syphilis imagery and its symbolic function in late Victorian culture.

Über den Autor

Monika Pietrzak-Franger is Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She has published widely on Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, gender, medicine, visual culture and adaptation. She is author of The Male Body and Masculinity (2007), editor of Women, Beauty, and Fashion (2014) and co-editor of Neo-Victorianism and Globalisation (2015), Disease, Communication and the Ethics of (In)Visibility (2014), and Reflecting on Darwin (2014).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Ways of Seeing.- Chapter 1: Aetiology and Etymology: Concepts, Bodies, Media.- Chapter 2: Recognizing Syphilis: Pornographic Knowledge and the Politics of Explanation.- Chapter 3: Facing Pathology: Modern (Re)Production of Difference.- Chapter 4: Prophylaxis and Treatment: Geopolitics of Differentiation.- Chapter 5: (Eugenic) Utopias: National Future and Individual Suffering.- Conclusion: "Uncomfortable Proximity" and the Ethics of Display.- Bibliography.- Index.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Inhalt:	xiv 339 S. 16 s/w Illustr. 1 farbige Illustr. 339 p. 17 illus. 1 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319495347
ISBN-10:	3319495348
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-49534-7
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Pietrzak-Franger, Monika
Auflage:	1st ed. 2017
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Maße:	216 x 153 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.06.2017
Gewicht:	0,573 kg

Artikel-ID: 109402069

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Inhalt:	xiv 339 S. 16 s/w Illustr. 1 farbige Illustr. 339 p. 17 illus. 1 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319495347
ISBN-10:	3319495348
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-49534-7
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Pietrzak-Franger, Monika
Auflage:	1st ed. 2017
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Maße:	216 x 153 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.06.2017
Gewicht:	0,573 kg