Reading Breath in Literature

Arthur Rose, Stefanie Heine, Naya Tsentourou, Corinne Saunders, Peter Garratt

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographica... Lees meer

Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama

Joseph Jarrett

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of ... Lees meer

Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy

Anna Gasperini

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working class, ... Lees meer

The Poetry of Knowledge and the 'Two Cultures'

John G Fitch

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also discusses particular poems ... Lees meer

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts o... Lees meer

The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature

Iro Filippaki

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and... Lees meer

The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel

Sonja Boos

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness... Lees meer

The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability

Emily B Stanback

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres - ranging f... Lees meer

Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture

Monika Pietrzak-Franger

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A rethinking of the dise... Lees meer

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts o... Lees meer

Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry

Joseph Crawford

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works... Lees meer

William Blake's Visions

David Worrall

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his 'visions' can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified... Lees meer

Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature

Chienyn Chi

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and li... Lees meer

The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature

Iro Filippaki

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and... Lees meer

Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Jenifer Buckley

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwi... Lees meer

Mental Health Symptoms in Literature Since Modernism

Nicolas Pierre Boileau

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism looks at various ways of treating symptoms of psychological disorders in the literature of the lo... Lees meer

Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel

Diana Pérez Edelman

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• 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 cent... Lees meer

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels... Lees meer

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Barri J Gold

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of our favorite books- Mansfield Park ,... Lees meer

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Barri J Gold

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of our favorite books- Mansfield Park ,... Lees meer

Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle

Emily Alder

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle , and examines weird fiction by British... Lees meer

Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840

Mary Fairclough

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings. Electricity ... Lees meer

Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780-1900

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• 1. Situating Psychopharmacology in Literature and Culture Natalie Roxburgh, Jennifer S. Henke I. Drugs and Genre 2. Historicising Keats' Opium Imagery... Lees meer

The Poetics and Politics of Alzheimer's Disease Life-Writing

Martina Zimmermann

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• 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 pa... Lees meer