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Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture = medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of Victorian invisibility /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture/ by Monika Pietrzak-Franger.
Reminder of title:	medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of Victorian invisibility /
Author:	Pietrzak-Franger, Monika.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xiv, 339 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49535-4
ISBN:	9783319495354

Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture = medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of Victorian invisibility /
Pietrzak-Franger, Monika.

Syphilis in Victorian literature and culturemedicine, knowledge and the spectacle of Victorian invisibility /[electronic resource] :by Monika Pietrzak-Franger. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xiv, 339 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine..

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.

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 large-scale interdisciplinary study of syphilis in late Victorian Britain whose significance lies in its unprecedented attention to the multimedia and multi-discursive evocations of syphilis. An examination of the heterogeneous sources that it offers, many of which have up to this point escaped critical attention, makes it possible to reveal the complex and poly-ideological reasons for the activation of syphilis imagery and its symbolic function in late Victorian culture.

ISBN: 9783319495354

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-49535-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

560374
English literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR461 / .P54 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9008

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