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Télécharger le livre : The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing
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The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing
Martina Zimmermann
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This is the first book-length exploration of the thoughts and experiences expressed by dementia patients in published narratives over the last thirty years. It contrasts third-person caregiver and first-person...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-06-07
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre : Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century
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Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century
Elsa Richardson
This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Second sight is a form of prophetic vision associated with the folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Described in Gaelic as the An-da-shealladh or ‘the two sights’,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-06-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre : Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840
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Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740–1840
Mary Fairclough
This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity was celebrated as a symbol of enlightened progress, but its operation and its utility were unsettlingly obscure. As a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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105,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Allan Ingram , Leigh Wetherall Dickson
This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples – ennui, sexual diseases and infectious diseases – as well as death itself, contributors explore the ways in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-23
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre : Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel
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Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel
Maureen Tuthill
This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain
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Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain
David Thorley
This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre : Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo
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Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo
Meredith K. Ray
This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-06-14
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Télécharger le livre : Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
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Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
Alanna Skuse
This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century.This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-11-11
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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