Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain

David Thorley

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. Observing that medical explanations f... 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

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England

Alanna Skuse

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. This book takes the first in-depth look at how people thought about, diagnosed and treated cancer in t... 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

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

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

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

• Paperback | 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

Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England

Alanna Skuse

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. This book takes the first in-depth look at how people thought about, diagnosed and treated cancer in t... Lees meer

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

Jerry Palmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming fr... Lees meer

Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

Meredith K Ray

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women's place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete Engli... Lees meer

Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle

Emily Alder

• Hardcover | 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

Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences

Gregory Tate

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences. The book argues tha... 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

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's the Winter's Tale

Martina Zamparo

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare's last plays, The Winter's Tale . A perusal of t... Lees meer

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

Abigail Boucher

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific d... Lees meer

Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s-1910s

Alison Moulds

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain a... 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

Contemporary Physics Plays

Jenni G Halpin

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Represents an original contribution to the study of science plays​Presents context for readers unfamiliar with principles of modern physicsParticipate... Lees meer

Thomas de Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

Markus Iseli

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenge... 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

Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This book explores how the writers, poets, thinkers, historians, scientists, dilettantes and frauds of the long-nineteenth century addressed the "limi... 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

Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895

Ben Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• This Pivot engages with current debates about anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene to propose a reappraisal of the realist novel in the second half o... Lees meer