Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture : Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility /: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Monika Pietrzak-Franger.
• Authors: Pietrzak-Franger, Monika
• Contents: Introduction: Ways of Seeing -- Chapter 1: Aetiology and Etymology: Concepts, Bodies, Media -- Chapter 2: Recognizing Syphilis: Pornographic Knowledge and the Politics of Explanation -- Chapter 3: Facing Pathology: Modern (Re)Production of Difference -- Chapter 4: Prophylaxis and Treatment: Geopolitics of Differentiation -- Chapter 5: (Eugenic) Utopias: National Future and Individual Suffering -- Conclusion: "Uncomfortable Proximity" and the Ethics of Display -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (XIV, 339 pages 17 illustrations, 1 illustration in color.)
• Subjects: 809.034; Literature; History; Literature -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 19th century; Syphilis -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- 19th century; Syphilis in literature; Syphilis -- history; Medicine in Literature; Attitude to Health; History, 19th Century; History; Literary Criticism -- General; Science -- History; Literature: history & criticism; History of science; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; United Kingdom; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319495356; 9783319495354
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.