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Medicine and maladies : representing affliction in nineteenth-century France / edited by Sophie Leroy.

Author/creator Medicine and maladies (Conference) ( 2014 : University of Bristol)
Other author/creatorLeroy, Sophie, 1988-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Descriptionxii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Faux titre ; volume 422
Contents Introduction / Sophie Leroy -- Documenting medical affliction. 'Voyez les femmes les plus hommasses, ces viragines audacieuses': la domestication de la femme masculine dans les traites savants de la premiere moitie du dix-neuvieme siecle / -- Geraldine Crahay -- Genre trouble on the battlefield: pharmaceutical, medical, and literary accounts of Napoleonic campaigns / Larry Duffy -- Alcoolisme et acedie : le monstre alcoolique dans la pensee clinique du XIXe siecle / Julie Muller -- Twice shy: two accounts of timidity in fin-de-siecle France / Philippa Lewis -- Writing pathological experiences. de karl-des-monts a ceneri : lorsque la voix de l'interne entre dans le roman / Melanie Bhend -- La Maladie comme metaphore chez Baudelaire / Joanna Rajkumar -- Emaciation as a subversive strategy in Renee Mauperin and an early case of 'hysterical anorexia' / Susannah Wilson -- 'Dictante Dolore': writing pain in Alphonse Daudet's La Doulou / Steven Wilson -- Reading body, mind, and environment. Against 'neuronormativity': 'volcanic' temperament in Mirbeau's L'Abbe Jules / Elizabeth Emery -- Genius and degeneracy: Auguste Rodin and the monument to Balzac / Natasha Ruiz-Gomez -- Courbes nevrosees, lignes asthmatiques: usages de la metaphore medicale dans la reception de l'Art Nouveau / Cyril Barde.
General noteBased on the conference, Medicine and Maladies, held at the University of Bristol in September, 2014.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
LanguageIn English and French.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018014172
ISBN9789004367999 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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