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Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine) by Monika Pietrzak-Franger is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine) about?
This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A rethinking of the disease with reference to its ambiguous status, and the ways of seeing that it generated, helps reconsider the network of socio-cultural and political interrelations which were negotiated through syphilis, thereby also raising larger questions about its function in the construction of individual, national and imperial identities. This book is the first
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Monika Pietrzak-Franger
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319495347
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Medical, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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