Self-Literacy: Writing Out Personhood offers fifty perspectives on gaining an understanding of what personhood may mean through various disciplines. Literature is a key medium through which selves are mapped as humans are written into being. Such...Daugiau...
Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching h...Daugiau...
Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance bridges literary studies and psychology to evaluate contemporary grief memoirs for use by bereaved and non-bereaved individuals. This volume positions the grief memoir with...Daugiau...
Narrative Fiction and Death. Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature: it focuses on narrative fiction that conveys the experience of dying from the internal perspective of a dying protagonist. ...Daugiau...
Canadian Literature and Medicine breaks new ground by formulating a series of frameworks with which to read and interpret a national literature derived from the very fabric of that literature in this case Canadian. Canadian literature i...Daugiau...
Narratives of Injury redescribes the history of injury from the perspective of those most at risk, rather than medical professionals and other outsiders. Refocusing on the first-hand perspectives found in literary texts and journalistic accounts, it...Daugiau...
Health, Literature and Gender in Twentieth Century Turkey offers readers fresh insight into Turkish modernity and its discourse on health, what it excludes, and how these potentialities manifest themselves in fiction to shape the imaginat...Daugiau...
John Donnes Language of Disease reveals the influence of medical knowledge -- a rapidly changing field in early modern England -- on Donnes thinking and writing. John Donnes Language of Disease reveals the infl...Daugiau...
The Poetry of Loss presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring recent shifts in the continuum of these memorial poems. The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporar...Daugiau...
Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health and psychological humanities to explore literary and cinematic epiphanies. James Joyce first adopted the term epiphany from religious use to articulate moments in secular litera...Daugiau...
Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol but as an agent within a network of relationships between body and min...Daugiau...
Sensation Novels and Domestic Minds investigates how the Victorians dealt with questions of mental health by examining literary works in the genre of sensation fiction. Drawing on the recent academic interest in approaching h...Daugiau...
This multi-vocal assemblage of literary and cultural responses to contagions provides insights into the companionship of posthumanities, environmental humanities, and medical humanities, to shed light on how we deal with complex issues like commun...Daugiau...
Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature: it focuses on narrative fiction that conveys the experience of dying from the internal perspective of a dying protagonist. Writers from Victor...Daugiau...
Grief Memoirs bridges the gap between literary studies and psychology to provide an in-depth examination of contemporary grief memoirs, evaluating their literary, cultural, therapeutic, and educational functions and benefits for bereaved and non-ber...Daugiau...
This book explores how the pregnant body is portrayed, perceived and enacted in Shakespeares and his contemporaries drama by means of a phenomenological analysis and a recourse to early modern popular medical discourse on reproduction. Phenomenolog...Daugiau...
Canadian Literature and Medicine breaks new ground by formulating a series of frameworks with which to read and interpret a national literature derived from the very fabric of that literature - in this case Canadian. Canadian literature is of partic...Daugiau...
John Donnes Language of Disease reveals the influence of medical knowledge -- a rapidly changing field in early modern England -- on Donnes thinking and writing. This knowledge played a crucial role in shaping how Donne understood his everyday exp...Daugiau...
Romantic and Contemporary Elegies presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring recent shifts in the continuum of these memorial poems. This volume investigates the tensions arising in elegiac for...Daugiau...
Health, Literature and Gender in Twentieth Century Turkey offers readers fresh insight into Turkish modernity and its discourse on health, what it excludes, and how these potentialities manifest themselves in fiction to shape the imagination of the...Daugiau...
