| Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity Contributor(s): Plock, Vike Martina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813042267 ISBN-13: 9780813042268 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| Series: Florida James Joyce (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.64 lbs) 202 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: James Joyce's interest in medicine has been well established--he attempted to embark on medical studies no fewer than three times--but a comprehensive assessment of the influence his interest in medicine had on his work has been lacking until now.In this wide-ranging study, author Vike Plock balances close readings of Joyce's major texts with thorough archival research that retrieves principal late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical debates. The result is a fascinating book that details the ways in which Joyce reconciled, integrated, and blurred the paradigmatic boundaries between scientific and humanist learning. |