Servitje Medicine Is War

The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8169-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Servitje, Lorenzo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I

1. Denaturing the Emergent Martial Metaphor in Mary Shelley's The Last Man

2. Charles Kingsley Meets Cholera Face-to-Face

PART II

3. Military Pasts and Medical Futures in Bram Stoker's Dracula

4. Arthur Conan Doyle's Imperial Armamentarium

5. Modernist Refractions of Tropical Medicine in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Collateral Damage: An Afterword

Addendum: A Surge of Epilogics in the Midst of the War against COVID-19

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lorenzo Servitje is Assistant Professor of Literature and Medicine at Lehigh University. He has published several books, including Syphilis and Subjectivity: From the Victorians to the Present (coedited with Kari Nixon); Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory (coedited with Kari Nixon); and The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image (coedited with Sherryl Vint).