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Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine) by Daniel McCann and Claire McKechnie-Mason is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine) about?
This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical manifestations, in the Western World, from medieval to modern times. It is divided into two parts. The first part, Treating Fear, examines fear in medical history, and draws from theology, medicine, philosophy, and psychology, to
Who reads Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Daniel McCann and Claire McKechnie-Mason
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137559487
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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