Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century (1st ed. 2022) (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
By: and
Sign Up Now!
Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into UK education collection to access this title.
Learn about membership options,
or view our freely available titles.
- Synopsis
- This book explores how the writers, poets, thinkers, historians, scientists, dilettantes and frauds of the long-nineteenth century addressed the “limit cases” regarding human existence that medicine continuously uncovered as it stretched the boundaries of knowledge. These cases cast troubling and distorted shadows on the culture, throwing into relief the values, vested interests, and power relations regarding the construction of embodied life and consciousness that underpinned the understanding of what it was to be alive in the long nineteenth century. Ranging over a period from the mid-eighteenth century through to the first decade of the twentieth century—an era that has been called the ‘Age of Science’—the essays collected here consider the cultural ripple effects of those previously unimaginable revolutions in science and medicine on humanity’s understanding of being.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783031133633
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783031133626
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 12/08/22
- Copyrighted By:
- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Horror, Nonfiction, Science, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Lucy Cogan
- Edited by:
- Michelle O'Connell
Reviews
Other Books
- by Lucy Cogan
- by Michelle O’Connell
- in History
- in Horror
- in Nonfiction
- in Science
- in Literature and Fiction
- in Language Arts
- in Sociology