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  1. Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics
    A Requiem for the Real? /
    Author: Moser, Keith.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which "alternative facts" and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of... more

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    This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which "alternative facts" and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet. Through discussions on climate change denial, the anti-vaccination movement, the January 6th Insurrection and the Russia-Ukraine War, this study explores the gravity of the current 'infodemic,' or the increasing inability of a large segment of the population to distinguish between reality and misrepresentation, and the destabilizing impact this infodemic has on democratic models of governance around the globe, coinciding with the rise of autocratic forms of populism. Keith Moser is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University. He has more than one-hundred major publications including nine books and eighty-five articles. Moser's research examines many issues linked to social-ecological justice, including Environmental Ethics (Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics, and Biosemiotics) and postmodern French thought as it relates to literature, Popular Culture, and society in general.

     
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    ISBN: 9783031561801
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Subjects: Ecocriticism.; Communication in the environmental sciences.; Medicine and the humanities.; Political science.; Ecocriticism.; Environmental Communication.; Medical Humanities.; Governance and Government.
    Scope: XVII, 201 p., online resource.
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    1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change Denial: An Ecocidal, Parallel Universe of Simulation -- 3. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Ongoing, Hyperreal Saga of a Deadly Epidemic and Infodemic -- 4. Alternative Facts Trump Reality: The Spectacular Anatomy of an Insurrection -- 5. The Baudrillardian "Discourse of the Good:" Putin's False Flag Operation to Denazify Ukraine -- 6. Conclusions. .
  2. William Blake's Visions
    Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia /
    Author: Worrall, David.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his 'visions' can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual... more

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    This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his 'visions' can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual hallucinations derived from several types of synaesthesia. Over a long period of time, Blake has been celebrated as a 'visionary,' yet his 'visions' have not been discussed. Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake's visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blake's insanity. David Worrall is Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on both William Blake and Eighteenth-Century Theatre.

     
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    ISBN: 9783031532542
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: European literature.; Literature, Modern; Medicine and the humanities.; European Literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Medical Humanities.
    Scope: XV, 262 p., online resource.
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    Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: The Physiology of Blake's Hallucinations -- CHAPTER TWO: Perceiving More Than Perception -- CHAPTER THREE: Klüver Form-Constant Visual Hallucinations -- CHAPTER FOUR: Agents Inducing Klüver Visual Hallucinations- CHAPTER FIVE: Blake's Synaesthesia -- CHAPTER SIX: Blake's Synaesthesia II: The Visionary Heads -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Blake's Synaesthesia III: the Testimony of Crabb Robinson -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Discussion and Conclusion. .
  3. Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
    Author: Chi, Chienyn.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism to shed light on Césaire's... more

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    Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism to shed light on Césaire's critique of psychological and medical discourses of the colonized's mind. The book argues that the discourse of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis has erased the context of power in global histories of empire. Through the book's chapters, Chi analyzes Lu Xun's "A Madman's Diary," Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions to assert that the misapprehension of madness should not automatically be accepted as the history of an isolated Western culture but rather that of the history of imperialism-a globalizing process that silences alternative cultural conceptions of the mind, of madness, and of behavior, as well as different interpretations of madness. Chienyn Chi received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and is working on her second book, The Colony and The City.

     
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    ISBN: 9783031598920
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: Literature.; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Literature; Medicine and the humanities.; Science; World Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Literary Criticism.; Medical Humanities.; History of Science.
    Scope: XIII, 143 p., online resource.
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    1 Aimé Césaire's Insensé Réveil -- 2 Lu Xun's 狂 -- 3 Virginia Woolf's Tangled Forest -- 4 Conclusion Tsitsi Dangerembga's Muroyi.
  4. Charlotte Brontë and Contagion
    Myths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection /
    Author: Waugh, Jo.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë's work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley... more

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    This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë's work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Villette (1853). This book establishes the ways in which Charlotte Brontë was closely engaged with the political and social contexts in which she wrote, extending this to the representation and metaphorical import of illness in Brontë's novels. Waugh also posits that although miasmatic theories are often assumed to have been entirely in the ascendant in the late 1840s, the relationship between miasma and contagion was a complex one and contagion in fact remained a crucial way for Charlotte Brontë to represent disease itself, as well as to explore the relationships between the individual and social, political, and cultural contexts. Contagion and its metaphors are central to Charlotte Brontë's construction of subjectivity and of the responsibilities of the individual and the group. Jo Waugh is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK.

     
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    ISBN: 9783031651403
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; European literature.; Medicine and the humanities.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; Medical Humanities.
    Scope: IX, 210 p., online resource.
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    Introduction -- Chapter 1 Contagion and the Brontës -- Chapter 2: Miasma and Weather: Life, Letters and Biography -- Chapter 3: Consumption: Myths of Romantic Individualism -- Chapter 4: Jane Eyre: Typhus, Heroism, and "The Common Brotherhood of Man" -- Chapter 5: Shirley: Fermentation, Barriers, and Boundaries -- Chapter 6: "Charlotte," Jane and the Subjectivity Meme -- Conclusion.
  5. Addiction Literature's Past and Present
    Author: Ronan, Mark.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of the linguistic and narrative materials of addiction... more

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    Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of the linguistic and narrative materials of addiction discourse and argues for Addiction Literature to be considered as a distinct literary phenomenon, with a history stretching back to Antiquity. Addiction, as it is understood in this book, exists at the intersection between appetite, habit and impaired personal behavioural agency. This book begins by exploring the ways in which we articulate the experience (both lived and observed) of addiction today, uncovering a core set of conceptual components and discursive tropes which are commonly associated with modern understandings of the phenomenon. Having established a common set of tropes and features which distinguish modern Addiction Literature as a distinct literary mode, it then considers premodern texts through this lens, revealing similar patterns of conception and convention in a broad range of historical periods and literary genres from Aesop to Shakespeare. Mark Ronan is an adult literacy tutor working primarily with recovering substance-users and providing support for everything from basic literacy skills to creative and reflective personal writing. He also teaches and lectures with the School of English in University College Dublin, Ireland.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Subjects: Literature; Medicine and the humanities.; Science; Literature, Medieval.; Classical literature.; Literature, Ancient.; Literary History.; Medical Humanities.; History of Science.; Medieval Literature.; Classical and Antique Literature.
    Scope: IX, 318 p., online resource.
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    Premodern Addiction and Addiction Literature -- Chapter One, Modern Conceptions of Addiction -- Chapter Two, Modern Addiction Literature -- Chapter Three, Premodern Addiction Discourse, Antiquity to Medieval -- Chapter Four, Addicted to Love -- Chapter Five, Anthropomorphised Beasts and Bestial Men -- Conclusion.
  6. Fluchtlinien der Sprache(n) :
    Migration, Kulturkontakt und Sprachbewegung im Spiegel der ›Medical Humanities‹ /
    Contributor: Fürholzer, Katharina, (editor.); Pröll, Julia, (editor.)
    Published: [2023]; 2023
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin ;

    Migration bedeutet eine - häufig physisch und psychisch traumatisierende - Zäsur, die vor multiple Verlusterfahrungen stellt. Diese sind mitunter schwer artikulierbar, sei es aufgrund sprachlich-kultureller Hürden, sei es aufgrund des Umstandes, dass... more

     

    Migration bedeutet eine - häufig physisch und psychisch traumatisierende - Zäsur, die vor multiple Verlusterfahrungen stellt. Diese sind mitunter schwer artikulierbar, sei es aufgrund sprachlich-kultureller Hürden, sei es aufgrund des Umstandes, dass das Erlebte das Vorstell- und Sagbare übersteigt. Derartige ,Fluchtlinien der Sprache' stellen nicht zuletzt das (westliche) Gesundheitswesen vor Herausforderungen, das sich aktuell mehr denn je mit Migrant:innen konfrontiert sieht. Gerade wenn es um die Wiedererlangung von (sprachlicher) Handlungsmacht geht, kommt künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen besonderer Stellenwert zu: verstanden als liminaler in-between space eröffnet die grenzüberschreitende Freiheit des Ästhetischen die Möglichkeit, resilienzfördernde linguistische, kulturelle oder identitätsbezogene Resignifikationen zu fördern. Vor diesem Hintergrund erkundet der konsequent interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band die Schnittstellen zwischen Medizin, Migration und künstlerischem Ausdruck. Dabei verharren die Beiträge nicht bei (migrationsassoziierten) Verlusterfahrungen, sondern zeigen Möglichkeiten der heilsamen Artikulation des Unsagbaren und Ungesagten in unterschiedlichsten Kunstformen (Literatur, Tanz, Social-Media, etc.) auf. Gleichzeitig sensibilisieren sie für eine kultursensitive Medizin, weshalb sie nicht nur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler:innen, sondern auch medizinisches Personal adressieren. This consistently interdisciplinary volume explores the intersections between medicine, migration, and artistic expression. Instead of portraying the experiences of loss associated with migration, it reveals the artistic possibilities presented by regaining linguistic power. At the same time, it raises awareness of culturally sensitive medicine, which currently finds itself confronted with migrants more than ever.

     
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    Contributor: Fürholzer, Katharina, (editor.); Pröll, Julia, (editor.)
    Language: German
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-11-120156-2
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    Series: Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches , ; 3
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
    Other subjects: Care in Contact/Pflege.; Medical Humanities.; Mehrsprachigkeit.; Migrationsliteratur.
    Scope: 1 online resource (VI, 253 p.)
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    Issued also in print.
  7. Fluchtlinien der Sprache(n) :
    Migration, Kulturkontakt und Sprachbewegung im Spiegel der ›Medical Humanities‹ /
    Contributor: Fürholzer, Katharina, (editor.); Pröll, Julia, (editor.)
    Published: [2023]; 2023
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin ;

    Migration bedeutet eine - häufig physisch und psychisch traumatisierende - Zäsur, die vor multiple Verlusterfahrungen stellt. Diese sind mitunter schwer artikulierbar, sei es aufgrund sprachlich-kultureller Hürden, sei es aufgrund des Umstandes, dass... more

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    Migration bedeutet eine - häufig physisch und psychisch traumatisierende - Zäsur, die vor multiple Verlusterfahrungen stellt. Diese sind mitunter schwer artikulierbar, sei es aufgrund sprachlich-kultureller Hürden, sei es aufgrund des Umstandes, dass das Erlebte das Vorstell- und Sagbare übersteigt. Derartige ,Fluchtlinien der Sprache' stellen nicht zuletzt das (westliche) Gesundheitswesen vor Herausforderungen, das sich aktuell mehr denn je mit Migrant:innen konfrontiert sieht. Gerade wenn es um die Wiedererlangung von (sprachlicher) Handlungsmacht geht, kommt künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen besonderer Stellenwert zu: verstanden als liminaler in-between space eröffnet die grenzüberschreitende Freiheit des Ästhetischen die Möglichkeit, resilienzfördernde linguistische, kulturelle oder identitätsbezogene Resignifikationen zu fördern. Vor diesem Hintergrund erkundet der konsequent interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band die Schnittstellen zwischen Medizin, Migration und künstlerischem Ausdruck. Dabei verharren die Beiträge nicht bei (migrationsassoziierten) Verlusterfahrungen, sondern zeigen Möglichkeiten der heilsamen Artikulation des Unsagbaren und Ungesagten in unterschiedlichsten Kunstformen (Literatur, Tanz, Social-Media, etc.) auf. Gleichzeitig sensibilisieren sie für eine kultursensitive Medizin, weshalb sie nicht nur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler:innen, sondern auch medizinisches Personal adressieren. This consistently interdisciplinary volume explores the intersections between medicine, migration, and artistic expression. Instead of portraying the experiences of loss associated with migration, it reveals the artistic possibilities presented by regaining linguistic power. At the same time, it raises awareness of culturally sensitive medicine, which currently finds itself confronted with migrants more than ever.

     
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    Contributor: Fürholzer, Katharina, (editor.); Pröll, Julia, (editor.)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-11-120156-2
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    Series: Medical & Health Humanities : Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches , ; 3
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
    Other subjects: Care in Contact/Pflege.; Medical Humanities.; Mehrsprachigkeit.; Migrationsliteratur.
    Scope: 1 online resource (VI, 253 p.)
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    Issued also in print.
  8. Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
    Author: Zamparo, Martina.
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    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 the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is... more

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    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 the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with topoi, myths, and emblematic imagery coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare's play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter's Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James's conciliatory attitude.

     
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    ISBN: 9783031051678
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    Parent title: Springer Nature eBook
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: European literature-Renaissance, 1450-1600.; Drama.; Theater-History.; Great Britain-History.; Medicine and the humanities.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.; Drama.; Theatre History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Medical Humanities.; Visual Culture.
    Scope: XXI, 377 p. 28 illus., 24 illus. in color., online resource.
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    1. Introduction -- PART I. "Emperors, kings and princes desired this science". Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- 2. Alchemy in Elizabethan England -- 3. Alchemy and Paracelsianism at the Jacobean Court -- PART II. The Alchemical Performance of The Winter's Tale. A Reading of the Play -- 4. Leontes's tale of winter -- 5. Water and Time -- 6. Art and Nature -- 7. The Statue Scene -- PART III. Jacobean Politics and Religion in the Play -- 8. The Winter's Tale and James I -- 9. Conclusions. .
  9. Frank Herbert's "Dune"
    A Critical Companion /
    Author: Kennedy, Kara.
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book offers a critical study of Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), the world's bestselling science fiction novel. Kara Kennedy discusses the novel's exploration of politics and religion, its influential ecological messages, the focus on the human mind... more

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    This book offers a critical study of Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), the world's bestselling science fiction novel. Kara Kennedy discusses the novel's exploration of politics and religion, its influential ecological messages, the focus on the human mind and consciousness, the complex nature of the archetypal hero, and the depiction of women's influence and control. In Dune, Herbert demonstrated that sophistication, complexity, and a multi-layered world with three-dimensional characters could sit comfortably within the science fiction genre. Underneath its deceptively simple storyline sits a wealth of historical and philosophical contexts and influences that make it a rich masterpiece open to multiple interpretations. Kennedy's study shows the continuing relevance of the novel in the 21st century due to its classic themes and its concerns about the future of humanity, as well as the ongoing nature of issues such as ecological disruption and conflicts over resources and religion. Kara Kennedy is a researcher, writer, and educator in the areas of science fiction, digital literacy, and writing. She is an avid scholar of Dune who has lectured and published on various topics including world-building. She posts literary analyses of Dune for a mainstream audience on her blog DuneScholar.com. She is the author of Women's Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women's Liberation through Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).

     
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    ISBN: 9783031139352
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon,
    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature-Philosophy.; Feminism and literature.; Ecocriticism.; Popular Culture.; Medicine and the humanities.; Motion pictures.; Television broadcasting.; Fiction Literature.; Feminist Literary Theory.; Ecocriticism.; Popular Culture.; Medical Humanities.; Film and Television Studies.
    Scope: XI, 113 p. 6 illus. in color., online resource.
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    Chapter 1.Introduction -- Chapter 2. Power, Politics, and Religion -- Chapter 3. Ecology and the Environment -- Chapter 4. Mind and Consciousness -- Chapter 5. Heroes and Masculinity -- Chapter 6. Women's Influence and Control -- Chapter 7. A Complex World.
  10. The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature
    Contributor: Capo, Beth Widmaier. (editor.); Lazzari, Laura. (editor.)
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving... more

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    This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the framework of reproductive justice in an interdisciplinary way, including English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German language, literature and culture, comparative literature, film, South Asian fiction, Canadian theatre, writing, gender studies, Deaf studies, disability studies, global health and medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume. Beth Widmaier Capo is Edward Capps Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Illinois College, USA. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is the author of Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (2007) and co-edited Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives (2017). Laura Lazzari holds a Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Master of Studies from Oxford, UK. A scholar in Motherhood Studies, she works at the Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities, Switzerland. She was the recipient of a 2015-2016 AAUW International Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University, USA, and has lectured for several universities in Switzerland and the United States.

     
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    Contributor: Capo, Beth Widmaier. (editor.); Lazzari, Laura. (editor.)
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    ISBN: 9783030995300
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    Parent title: Springer Nature eBook
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Feminism and literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Medicine and the humanities.; Law-History.; Ethics.; Social medicine.; Feminist Literary Theory.; Contemporary Literature.; Medical Humanities.; Legal History.; Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.; Health, Medicine and Society.
    Scope: XXII, 667 p. 16 illus., 14 illus. in color., online resource.
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    1. Introduction -- 2. Recognizing Issues of Reproductive Justice in Nineteenth-Century US Literature -- 3. "Learn and Run": Reproductive Oppression and Resistance in the Works of Octavia E. Butler -- 4. Reading Reproductive Justice through Toni Morrison -- 5. Reproductive Justice in Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf" -- 6. Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-Language Fiction and Film -- 7. Cultivating Access, Cultivating Ignorance: A Survey of Herbal Abortifacients in American Fiction -- 8. Female Narratives of Abortion in Italian Literature From the 1970s to the Present -- 9. Re-Presenting the Un-Presentable: Annie Ernaux's L'évènement and Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Two Days -- 10. Re-conceiving the World: Dystopia and Reproductive Justice -- 11. Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples' Right to be Born -- 12. Queer Argonauts for Reproductive Justice -- 13. On the One-Child Policy of China: Reading Ma Jian's Novel The Dark Road -- 14. Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment: An Issue of Reproductive Justice -- 15. Birthing Bodies Delivering Power in Anglophone Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- 16. Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens -- 17. Reproductive Experiences of Poor Mothers in India: An Analysis of YouTube Documentaries -- 18. Spain and Structural Infertility: Towards an Integrative Vision of Motherhood in the Novel Quién quiere ser madre by Silvia Nanclares -- 19. "Give me children, or else I die": Baby-hunger, Surrogacy, and Family-Making by Any Means Necessary -- 20. Surrogacy or Sale: Reflecting upon Reproductive Justice through The House for Hidden Mothers and A House of Happy Mothers -- 21. Claiming Motherhood: Reproductive Justice and Surrogacy in Chinese American Literature of the New Millennium -- 22. Reimagining the Past, Present, and the Future of Reproductive Bodies in Contemporary Japanese Women's Fiction: Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs and Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World -- 23. State Terror and the Destruction of Families for Reproductive "Management" in Three Argentine Films -- 24. Scroungers, Strivers, and Single Mothers: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State in Ken Loach's Social Realism -- 25. Reproductive Justice in Undocumented Women's Memoirs -- 26. Challenging Racialized Motherhood and the Sixties Scoop with Indigenous Theatre -- 27. "I'll Never Be Ready!": Applying a Reproductive Justice Lens in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom -- 28. Teaching Reproductive Justice: Reading Motherhood with Generations X, Y, and Z -- 29. Mayday: Rethinking Reproductive Justice Protests Utilizing Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale -- 30. Not an Easy Read for "Normal" "Colored" People: Conversations on Shange's and Rooney's Literatures of Sexual Citizenship.
  11. Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction
    Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction /
    Contributor: Vint, Sherryl. (editor.); Buran, Sümeyra. (editor.)
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway's influential "Cyborg Manifesto" was... more

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    Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway's influential "Cyborg Manifesto" was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as a social technology, and posthuman visions of a world beyond gender, this book demonstrates how feminist speculative fiction offers an urgently needed response to the intersections of women's bodies and technology. This collection brings together authors from Europe, Japan, the US and the UK to consider speculative films and texts, reproductive technologies and food futures, and opportunities to rethink family, aging, gender and sexuality, and community through feminist speculative fiction, a social technology for building better futures.

     
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    Media type: Ebook; Data medium
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783030961923
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    Parent title: Springer Nature eBook
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture,
    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature-Philosophy.; Feminism and literature.; Medicine and the humanities.; Popular Culture.; Science-Social aspects.; Communication in science.; Fiction Literature.; Feminist Literary Theory.; Medical Humanities.; Popular Culture.; Science and Technology Studies.; Science Communication.
    Scope: XVIII, 353 p., online resource.
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    1. Introduction: Sociotechnical Design and the Future of Gender -- Part I Reproductive Technologies -- 2. Ectogenesis on the NHS: Reproduction and Privatization in Twenty-first-Century British Science Fiction -- 3. Being an Artificial Womb Machine-Human -- 4. Environmental Sterilization through Reproductive Sterilization in Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army -- 5. Groomed for Survival - Queer Reproductive Technologies and Cross-Species Assemblages in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu -- Part II Reimagining the Woman -- 6. A Housewife's Dream? Automation and the Problem of Women's Free Time -- 7. Motherhood Beyond Woman: I Am [a Good] Mother and Predecessors Onscreen -- 8. Gender and Reproduction in the Dystopian Works of Sayaka Murata -- 9. Cyborg Separatism: Feminist Utopia in Athena's Choice -- Part III Queering Gender -- 10. Drowning in the Cloud: Water, the Digital and the Queer Potential of Feminist Science Fiction -- 11. Making the Multiple: Gender and the Technologies of Multiplicity in Cyberpunk Science Fiction -- 12. Lesbian Cyborgs and the Blueprints for Liberation -- Part IV Posthuman Females -- 13. Becoming Woman: Healing and Posthuman Subjectivity in Garland's Ex Machina -- 14. Female Ageing and Technological Reproduction. Feminist Transhuman Embodiments in Jasper Fforde's The Woman Who Died A Lot -- 15. 'Growgirls' and Cultured Eggs: Food Futures, and Feminism in SF from the Global South -- 16. Reproductive Futurism, Indigenous Futurism, and the (Non)Human to Come in Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God.
  12. Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics
    A Requiem for the Real?
    Author: Moser, Keith A.
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Zusammenfassung: This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which “alternative facts” and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which “alternative facts” and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet. Through discussions on climate change denial, the anti-vaccination movement, the January 6th Insurrection and the Russia-Ukraine War, this study explores the gravity of the current 'infodemic,' or the increasing inability of a large segment of the population to distinguish between reality and misrepresentation, and the destabilizing impact this infodemic has on democratic models of governance around the globe, coinciding with the rise of autocratic forms of populism. Keith Moser is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University. He has more than one-hundred major publications including nine books and eighty-five articles. Moser’s research examines many issues linked to social-ecological justice, including Environmental Ethics (Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics, and Biosemiotics) and postmodern French thought as it relates to literature, Popular Culture, and society in general

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Other subjects: (lcsh)Ecocriticism.; (lcsh)Communication in the environmental sciences.; (lcsh)Medicine and the humanities.; (lcsh)Political science.; Ecocriticism.; Environmental Communication.; Medical Humanities.; Governance and Government.
    Scope: Online-Ressource, Approx. 180 p., online resource.
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    1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change Denial: An Ecocidal, Parallel Universe of Simulation -- 3. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Ongoing, Hyperreal Saga of a Deadly Epidemic and Infodemic -- 4. Alternative Facts Trump Reality: The Spectacular Anatomy of an Insurrection -- 5. The Baudrillardian “Discourse of the Good:” Putin’s False Flag Operation to Denazify Ukraine -- 6. Conclusions.
  13. Charlotte Brontë and Contagion
    Myths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection
    Author: Waugh, Jo
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Zusammenfassung: This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë’s work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë’s work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Villette (1853). This book establishes the ways in which Charlotte Brontë was closely engaged with the political and social contexts in which she wrote, extending this to the representation and metaphorical import of illness in Brontë’s novels. Waugh also posits that although miasmatic theories are often assumed to have been entirely in the ascendant in the late 1840s, the relationship between miasma and contagion was a complex one and contagion in fact remained a crucial way for Charlotte Brontë to represent disease itself, as well as to explore the relationships between the individual and social, political, and cultural contexts. Contagion and its metaphors are central to Charlotte Brontë’s construction of subjectivity and of the responsibilities of the individual and the group. Jo Waugh is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK

     
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    ISBN: 9783031651403
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    Other subjects: (lcsh)Literature, Modern--19th century.; (lcsh)European literature.; (lcsh)Medicine and the humanities.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; Medical Humanities.
    Scope: Online-Ressource, IX, 210 p., online resource.
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    Introduction -- Chapter 1 Contagion and the Brontës -- Chapter 2: Miasma and Weather: Life, Letters and Biography -- Chapter 3: Consumption: Myths of Romantic Individualism -- Chapter 4: Jane Eyre: Typhus, Heroism, and “The Common Brotherhood of Man” -- Chapter 5: Shirley: Fermentation, Barriers, and Boundaries -- Chapter 6: “Charlotte,” Jane and the Subjectivity Meme -- Conclusion
  14. Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022 :
    A Lingering Condition /
    Author: Sealy Lynch, Rachael.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the... more

     

    This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name. Rachael Sealy Lynch, Associate Professor Emerita of English at the University of Connecticut, USA, works primarily in the field of recent and contemporary Irish women writers, and, more recently, in the medical humanities. She has published widely, with a focus on sex, stigma, and shame, on writers including Anne Enright, Jennifer Johnston, Molly Keane, Edna O’Brien, Emma Donoghue, Mary Lavin, and Liam O’Flaherty.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature,
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Medicine and the humanities.; Great Britain; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Medical Humanities.; History of Britain and Ireland.
    Scope: 1 online resource (239 pages)
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    1 The Story of Tuberculosis in Ireland: An Overview.-2 The Nameless Scourge: Tuberculosis in Ireland, 1800–the Present.-3 The Unspoken Menace -- 4 Dracula, Ireland’s Vampiric Vector -- 5 The Lingering and “The Dead”: Illusion and Irony in Early Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction -- 6 Contagion and Community in Irish Fiction 1900–1942 -- 7 Naming the Scourge and the “Sanatorium of the Imagination”.
  15. Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel /
    Author: Rampelli, Melissa.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s... more

     

    Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s social, physical, and mental health. The book sketches out prominent shifts in cultural reactions to the idea of diffused agency and the prized model of the interiorized, individual person capable of self will and governance. Melissa Rampelli takes up the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, showing how the authors play with and manipulate stock literary figures to contribute to this dialogue about the causes and cures of women’s hysterical distress.

     
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    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; Literature; Feminism and literature.; Medicine and the humanities.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Feminist Literary Theory.; Medical Humanities.
    Scope: 1 online resource (222 pages)
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    Introduction -- 1. The Problem of the Self-Governed Subject in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility -- 2. Embodied Knowing and the Hysteric in Dickens’s Bleak House -- 3. George Eliot’s Middlemarch and the Question of Marriage as Catalyst or Cure -- 4. Hysterical Degeneration and The New Woman in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders -- Epilogue.
  16. Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry /
    Author: Welch, Tana Jean,
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of... more

     

    Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice. This book makes a case for a posthumanist understanding of the body—one that sees health and illness not as properties possessed by individual bodies, but as processes that connect bodies to their social and natural environment, shaping their capacity to act, think, and feel. Tana Jean Welch demonstrates how contemporary American poetry is specifically poised to develop a pathway toward a posthuman intervention in biomedicine, the field of medical humanities, medical discourse, and the value systems that guide U.S. healthcare in general. Tana Jean Welch is a poet and scholar of medical humanities and contemporary American poetry. She is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine where she teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities and serves as Director of the Chapman Humanities and Arts in Medicine Program. Her critical work has been published in MELUS, The Journal of Ecocriticism, Literature and Medicine, and Academic Medicine. She is also the author of the poetry collections In Parachutes Descending (2024) and Latest Volcano (2016). .

     
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    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: Poetry.; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Medicine and the humanities.; Medical Ethics.; Science; Poetry and Poetics.; Contemporary Literature.; Medical Humanities.; Medical Ethics.; History of Science.
    Scope: 1 online resource (210 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    1. “Poems are Bodies that Remind Us We Have Bodies”—Poetry, Medical Posthumanism, and Ethical Practice -- 2. Entangled Species / Entangled Health: The Inclusive Poetics of Juliana Spahr -- 3. Health Inequity, Structural Racism, and The Trans-Corporeal Ethics of Claudia Rankine’s Investigative Poetics -- 4. Shared Suffering and Chronic Vulnerability in the Poetry of Brian Teare -- 5. Global Health Equity, Community Building, and the Innovative Poetics of Hong and Perez -- 6. Conclusion: Affirmative Medicine: Queer Figurations and Porous Boundaries.
  17. Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics :
    A Requiem for the Real? /
    Author: Moser, Keith.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which “alternative facts” and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of... more

     

    This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which “alternative facts” and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet. Through discussions on climate change denial, the anti-vaccination movement, the January 6th Insurrection and the Russia-Ukraine War, this study explores the gravity of the current 'infodemic,' or the increasing inability of a large segment of the population to distinguish between reality and misrepresentation, and the destabilizing impact this infodemic has on democratic models of governance around the globe, coinciding with the rise of autocratic forms of populism. Keith Moser is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University. He has more than one-hundred major publications including nine books and eighty-five articles. Moser’s research examines many issues linked to social-ecological justice, including Environmental Ethics (Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics, and Biosemiotics) and postmodern French thought as it relates to literature, Popular Culture, and society in general.

     
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    Subjects: Ecocriticism.; Communication in the environmental sciences.; Medicine and the humanities.; Political science.; Ecocriticism.; Environmental Communication.; Medical Humanities.; Governance and Government.
    Scope: 1 online resource (213 pages)
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    1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change Denial: An Ecocidal, Parallel Universe of Simulation -- 3. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Ongoing, Hyperreal Saga of a Deadly Epidemic and Infodemic -- 4. Alternative Facts Trump Reality: The Spectacular Anatomy of an Insurrection -- 5. The Baudrillardian “Discourse of the Good:” Putin’s False Flag Operation to Denazify Ukraine -- 6. Conclusions. .
  18. William Blake's Visions :
    Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia /
    Author: Worrall, David,
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual... more

     

    This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual hallucinations derived from several types of synaesthesia. Over a long period of time, Blake has been celebrated as a ‘visionary,’ yet his ‘visions’ have not been discussed. Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake’s visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blake’s insanity. David Worrall is Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on both William Blake and Eighteenth-Century Theatre.

     
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    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: European literature.; Literature, Modern; Medicine and the humanities.; European Literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Medical Humanities.
    Scope: 1 online resource (270 pages)
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    Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: The Physiology of Blake’s Hallucinations -- CHAPTER TWO: Perceiving More Than Perception -- CHAPTER THREE: Klüver Form-Constant Visual Hallucinations -- CHAPTER FOUR: Agents Inducing Klüver Visual Hallucinations- CHAPTER FIVE: Blake’s Synaesthesia -- CHAPTER SIX: Blake’s Synaesthesia II: The Visionary Heads -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Blake’s Synaesthesia III: the Testimony of Crabb Robinson -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Discussion and Conclusion. .
  19. Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature /
    Author: Chi, Chienyn,
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism to shed light on Césaire’s... more

     

    Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism to shed light on Césaire’s critique of psychological and medical discourses of the colonized’s mind. The book argues that the discourse of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis has erased the context of power in global histories of empire. Through the book’s chapters, Chi analyzes Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary,” Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions to assert that the misapprehension of madness should not automatically be accepted as the history of an isolated Western culture but rather that of the history of imperialism—a globalizing process that silences alternative cultural conceptions of the mind, of madness, and of behavior, as well as different interpretations of madness. Chienyn Chi received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and is working on her second book, The Colony and The City.

     
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    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: Literature.; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Literature; Medicine and the humanities.; Science; World Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Literary Criticism.; Medical Humanities.; History of Science.
    Scope: 1 online resource (154 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    1 Aimé Césaire’s Insensé Réveil -- 2 Lu Xun’s 狂 -- 3 Virginia Woolf’s Tangled Forest -- 4 Conclusion Tsitsi Dangerembga’s Muroyi.
  20. Addiction Literature's Past and Present /
    Author: Ronan, Mark.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of the linguistic and narrative materials of addiction... more

     

    Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of the linguistic and narrative materials of addiction discourse and argues for Addiction Literature to be considered as a distinct literary phenomenon, with a history stretching back to Antiquity. Addiction, as it is understood in this book, exists at the intersection between appetite, habit and impaired personal behavioural agency. This book begins by exploring the ways in which we articulate the experience (both lived and observed) of addiction today, uncovering a core set of conceptual components and discursive tropes which are commonly associated with modern understandings of the phenomenon. Having established a common set of tropes and features which distinguish modern Addiction Literature as a distinct literary mode, it then considers premodern texts through this lens, revealing similar patterns of conception and convention in a broad range of historical periods and literary genres from Aesop to Shakespeare. Mark Ronan is an adult literacy tutor working primarily with recovering substance-users and providing support for everything from basic literacy skills to creative and reflective personal writing. He also teaches and lectures with the School of English in University College Dublin, Ireland.

     
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    Subjects: Literature; Medicine and the humanities.; Science; Literature, Medieval.; Classical literature.; Literature, Ancient.; Literary History.; Medical Humanities.; History of Science.; Medieval Literature.; Classical and Antique Literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (323 pages)
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    Premodern Addiction and Addiction Literature -- Chapter One, Modern Conceptions of Addiction -- Chapter Two, Modern Addiction Literature -- Chapter Three, Premodern Addiction Discourse, Antiquity to Medieval -- Chapter Four, Addicted to Love -- Chapter Five, Anthropomorphised Beasts and Bestial Men -- Conclusion.
  21. Charlotte Brontë and Contagion :
    Myths, Memes, and the Politics of Infection /
    Author: Waugh, Jo.
    Published: 2024.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing :, Cham : ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

    This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë’s work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley... more

     

    This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment of Charlotte Brontë’s work. Waugh argues that contagion, infection, and quarantining strategies are central themes in Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), and Villette (1853). This book establishes the ways in which Charlotte Brontë was closely engaged with the political and social contexts in which she wrote, extending this to the representation and metaphorical import of illness in Brontë’s novels. Waugh also posits that although miasmatic theories are often assumed to have been entirely in the ascendant in the late 1840s, the relationship between miasma and contagion was a complex one and contagion in fact remained a crucial way for Charlotte Brontë to represent disease itself, as well as to explore the relationships between the individual and social, political, and cultural contexts. Contagion and its metaphors are central to Charlotte Brontë’s construction of subjectivity and of the responsibilities of the individual and the group. Jo Waugh is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, UK.

     
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    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
    Subjects: Literature, Modern; European literature.; Medicine and the humanities.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; Medical Humanities.
    Scope: 1 online resource (216 pages)
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    Introduction -- Chapter 1 Contagion and the Brontës -- Chapter 2: Miasma and Weather: Life, Letters and Biography -- Chapter 3: Consumption: Myths of Romantic Individualism -- Chapter 4: Jane Eyre: Typhus, Heroism, and “The Common Brotherhood of Man” -- Chapter 5: Shirley: Fermentation, Barriers, and Boundaries -- Chapter 6: “Charlotte,” Jane and the Subjectivity Meme -- Conclusion.
  22. Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry
    Author: Welch, Tana Jean
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Zusammenfassung: Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice. This book makes a case for a posthumanist understanding of the body—one that sees health and illness not as properties possessed by individual bodies, but as processes that connect bodies to their social and natural environment, shaping their capacity to act, think, and feel. Tana Jean Welch demonstrates how contemporary American poetry is specifically poised to develop a pathway toward a posthuman intervention in biomedicine, the field of medical humanities, medical discourse, and the value systems that guide U.S. healthcare in general. Tana Jean Welch is a poet and scholar of medical humanities and contemporary American poetry. She is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine where she teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities and serves as Director of the Chapman Humanities and Arts in Medicine Program. Her critical work has been published in MELUS, The Journal of Ecocriticism, Literature and Medicine, and Academic Medicine. She is also the author of the poetry collections In Parachutes Descending (2024) and Latest Volcano (2016).

     
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    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783031498886
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    Other subjects: (lcsh)Poetry.; (lcsh)Literature, Modern--20th century.; (lcsh)Literature, Modern--21st century.; (lcsh)Medicine and the humanities.; (lcsh)Medical Ethics.; (lcsh)Science--History.; Poetry and Poetics.; Contemporary Literature.; Medical Humanities.; Medical Ethics.; History of Science.
    Scope: Online-Ressource, XV, 200 p., online resource.
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    1. “Poems are Bodies that Remind Us We Have Bodies”—Poetry, Medical Posthumanism, and Ethical Practice -- 2. Entangled Species / Entangled Health: The Inclusive Poetics of Juliana Spahr -- 3. Health Inequity, Structural Racism, and The Trans-Corporeal Ethics of Claudia Rankine’s Investigative Poetics -- 4. Shared Suffering and Chronic Vulnerability in the Poetry of Brian Teare -- 5. Global Health Equity, Community Building, and the Innovative Poetics of Hong and Perez -- 6. Conclusion: Affirmative Medicine: Queer Figurations and Porous Boundaries
  23. Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities
    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Culture, and Media
    Contributor: Cressman, Jodi (Herausgeber); DeTora, Lisa (Herausgeber); Ludlow, Jeannie (Herausgeber); Martin Peterson, Nora (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Zusammenfassung: Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities: Literature, Culture, and Media examines discourses of embodiment across disability studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and visual studies to inform educational practice as well... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: Envisioning Embodiment in the Health Humanities: Literature, Culture, and Media examines discourses of embodiment across disability studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and visual studies to inform educational practice as well as cultural criticism related to the health and medical humanities. The book argues that imagery and other visual elements in literature, comics, lived experience and the arts demonstrate the hybridity of the embodied experience and identity and have something to offer to clinical practice. Connected to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Health), 4 (Gender equality), and 16 (Strong institutions), the topics addressed in the essays include mental health, grief, COVID-19, healthcare practices, cancer, and women’s health. The volume is designed to be accessible to advanced undergraduate students as well as graduate students and to be useful for medical practitioners and others who are interested in the health humanities, disability studies, gender studies, or cultural studies. Jodi Cressman is Professor of English at Dominican University, USA. Lisa DeTora is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and the Director of STEM Writing at Hofstra University, USA. Jeannie Ludlow is Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Eastern Illinois University, USA. Nora Martin Peterson is Associate Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

     
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    Contributor: Cressman, Jodi (Herausgeber); DeTora, Lisa (Herausgeber); Ludlow, Jeannie (Herausgeber); Martin Peterson, Nora (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783031498077
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2023
    Series: Sustainable Development Goals Series
    Other subjects: (lcsh)Comparative literature.; (lcsh)Medicine and the humanities.; (lcsh)Culture--Study and teaching.; (lcsh)Literature--Philosophy.; (lcsh)Feminism and literature.; (lcsh)Medical care.; Comparative Literature.; Medical Humanities.; Visual Culture.; Feminist Literary Theory.; Health Care.
    Scope: Online-Ressource, XV, 217 p. 2 illus., online resource.
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    Foreword by Stephanie Hilger -- Introduction: Envisioning Embodiment by Jodi Cressman, Lisa DeTora, Jeannie Ludlow, and Nora Martin Peterson -- Part I: Envisioning the Self -- Nora Martin Peterson, Be Yourself: Visual Technologies of Self-Creation in the Seventeenth Century and Today -- Sophie Witt, Theatres of Psychosomatics -- Serena Fusco, Reappropriating Breastfeeding as Power and Time in Photography and Feminist Discourse -- Amanda Greene, Enacting #Endometriosis: Feminist Approaches to the Instagrammatic Illness Narrative -- Barbara Grüning, Embodying Mental Illness: Anorexia and Bulimia in Graphic Novel Narratives -- Elizabeth Lanphier, Rehearsing Grief: Turning to Look at Loss in Eurydice -- Part II: Envisioning the Other -- Shalini Abayasekara, Life and death: The COVID-19 pandemic and Sri Lanka’s Embodied Muslims -- Derek Ettensohn, “Why should I imagine such a thing?”: The Representation of Suffering in Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012) -- Lisa DeTora, (Non?) Toxic Masculinities: Envisioning Gender in Recent Television Series -- Jodi Cressman, Making the Rounds: Communication and Healthcare in Alice Walker’s “Strong Horse Tea” -- Katja Herges, Migration, Nature and the Body in Birgit Weyhe’s Graphic Narrative Madgermanes -- Jeannie Ludlow, Vaccinated by the Blood: Antiabortion Mobilization of the COVID Body.
  24. William Blake's Visions
    Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia
    Author: Worrall, David
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Zusammenfassung: This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual hallucinations derived from several types of synaesthesia. Over a long period of time, Blake has been celebrated as a ‘visionary,’ yet his ‘visions’ have not been discussed. Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake’s visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blake’s insanity. David Worrall is Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on both William Blake and Eighteenth-Century Theatre

     
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    ISBN: 9783031532542
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    Other subjects: (lcsh)European literature.; (lcsh)Literature, Modern--18th century.; (lcsh)Medicine and the humanities.; European Literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Medical Humanities.
    Scope: Online-Ressource, XV, 262 p., online resource.
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    Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: The Physiology of Blake’s Hallucinations -- CHAPTER TWO: Perceiving More Than Perception -- CHAPTER THREE: Klüver Form-Constant Visual Hallucinations -- CHAPTER FOUR: Agents Inducing Klüver Visual Hallucinations- CHAPTER FIVE: Blake’s Synaesthesia -- CHAPTER SIX: Blake’s Synaesthesia II: The Visionary Heads -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Blake’s Synaesthesia III: the Testimony of Crabb Robinson -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Discussion and Conclusion.
  25. Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
    Author: Chi, Chienyn
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Zusammenfassung: Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism to shed light... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature. The book analyzes Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism to shed light on Césaire’s critique of psychological and medical discourses of the colonized’s mind. The book argues that the discourse of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis has erased the context of power in global histories of empire. Through the book’s chapters, Chi analyzes Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary,” Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions to assert that the misapprehension of madness should not automatically be accepted as the history of an isolated Western culture but rather that of the history of imperialism—a globalizing process that silences alternative cultural conceptions of the mind, of madness, and of behavior, as well as different interpretations of madness. Chienyn Chi received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and is working on her second book, The Colony and The City

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783031598920
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
    Other subjects: (lcsh)Literature.; (lcsh)Literature, Modern--20th century.; (lcsh)Literature, Modern--21st century.; (lcsh)Literature--History and criticism.; (lcsh)Medicine and the humanities.; (lcsh)Science--History.; World Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Literary Criticism.; Medical Humanities.; History of Science.
    Scope: Online-Ressource, XIII, 143 p., online resource.
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    1 Aimé Césaire’s Insensé Réveil -- 2 Lu Xun’s 狂 -- 3 Virginia Woolf’s Tangled Forest -- 4 Conclusion Tsitsi Dangerembga’s Muroyi