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Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Sweet, Ryan

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030785895
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xv, 283p. : ill.
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810.93561 SWE p
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Articulating bodies : the narrative form of disability and illness in victori…
Hingston, Kylee Anne

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the …

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ISBN/ISSN
9781789624953
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ix. ;232 p.
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823.8093561. KYL a
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Body and spirit in the Middle Ages : literature, philosophy, medicine
Gubbini, Gaia

A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, memory and passions, in order to shed new…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783110615937
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vi, 290. : ill.
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128.20902 GUB b
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The embodied child : readings in children's literature and culture
Zipes, JackNel, Philip

The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child’s body and the i…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781315101262
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ix, 295 p. ; ill
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809.89282 ZIP t
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Visualizing the invisible with the human body : physiognomy and ekphrasis in …
Cale Johnson, J.Stavru, Alessandro

Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literatur…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783110642698
Collation
VI, 501 p.
Series Title
Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
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480 JOH v