Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare's Theater of Nature
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Shakespeare’s Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with relations between words, images, and objects as sources of knowledge and pleasure. Shakespeare’s re-centering of nature as a source of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
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This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-10-05
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany
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Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-10-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
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This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-10-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel
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The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novel’s development from the perspective of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance
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Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance seeks to address the representation of the humors from non-traditional, abstract, and materialist perspectives, considering the humorality of everyday objects, activities, and performance within the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s
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This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain and its empire. Moving away from a focus on medical education and professional appointments, the book reorients attention...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-08-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel
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This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole’s use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature
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The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and the emergent postmodern canon of the 1960s and 1970s. By identifying key postmodern literary tropes (paranoia,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-04-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of our favorite books—Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and The War of the Worlds—and the ways these shape our sense of ourselves as ecological...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-04-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts
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This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-12-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780–1900
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This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts. Covering several genres, such as novels, poetry, autobiography and non-fiction, individual...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-09-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences
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Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences. The book argues that poets such as William Wordsworth, Mathilde Blind, and Thomas Hardy identified poetry as an experimental...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle
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This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From laboratory...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-01-07
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama
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This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603. It concentrates upon six plays by five early modern dramatists: Tamburlaine,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels
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This book examines several distinctive literary figurations of posthuman embodiment as they proliferate across a range of internationally acclaimed contemporary novels: clones in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, animal-human hybrids in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-10-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry
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This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works of poets such as Barrett, Browning, Clare, Tennyson, Townshend, and the Spasmodics in relation to the burgeoning asylum...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
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This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-06-28
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage
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This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays focused on early modern drama and the culture of theater, contributors explore how ideas of contagion not...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-06-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Fiction and Science from Amis to McEwan
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This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades. As popular science comes...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-04-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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