Overview
- Examines cultural representations of syphilis across media.
- Looks at the implications of syphilis for late Victorian culture.
- Goes beyond the traditional gender-race-class approach to the disease
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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“Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture is a thoughtful, well-researched, and provocative piece of research that uncovers the complexities of the representation of syphilis, its subtle and not so subtle symbolic functions in Victorian culture, and the part it plays still today in articulating social and political anxieties about nationhood and identity.” (Jane Desmarais, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 63 (1), 2020)
“This work provides a useful lense for Victorian perspectives on syphilis, offering the potential for parallels to be drawn with more recent times. … Pietrzak-Franger has produceda comprehensive and incisive piece of criticism, made all the more impressive for previous lack of attention to the cultural meanings of syphilis.” (Joe Holloway, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, February, 2018)
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Book Title: Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture
Book Subtitle: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility
Authors: Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49535-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49534-7Published: 26 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84183-0Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49535-4Published: 08 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 339
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, History of Science