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  1. Controlling animals :
    vain attempts at immortality in three works of fiction /
    Author: Reichstein, Michael Paul
    Published: [2024].
    Publisher:  Peter Lang,, Berlin :

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 978-3-631-91674-2; 3-631-91674-4
    Other identifier:
    9783631916742
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    DDC Categories: 420
    Subjects: Tiere <Motiv>; Unsterblichkeit <Motiv>; Unterjochung <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Martel, Yann (1963-): Life of Pi; Wells, H. G. (1866-1946): <<The>> island of Doctor Moreau; Boyle, T. Coraghessan (1948-): When the killing's done; Animal subjugation; Animal appropriation; Death aversion; Immortality Projects; Dominion; Animal subjugation;Animal appropriation;Death aversion;Immortality Projects;Dominion
    Scope: 158 Seiten.
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    Titel der Dissertation: Remote island immortality projects. Natural tableaus for futile attempts at death fear aversion

    Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 2022
  2. Transfusion :
    blood and sympathy in the nineteenth-century literary imagination /
    Author: Kibbie, Ann Louise
    Published: 2019.
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press,, Charlottesville ; London :

    "Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials.... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    "Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials. This study explores transfusion's role in now-canonical works such as H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as in an array of lesser-known short stories and novels." --

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 978-0-8139-4313-8; 978-0-8139-4372-5
    RVK Categories: HL 1101 ; HL 4519 ; HM 4755
    Subjects: English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Blood transfusion in literature; Blood / Symbolic aspects; English literature; Englisch; Literatur; Bluttransfusion; Sympathie <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Wells, H. G. (1866-1946): <<The>> island of Doctor Moreau; Stoker, Bram (1847-1912): Dracula
    Scope: xii, 279 Seiten :, Illustrationen ;, 24 cm.
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    Introduction: Vital transactions -- Transfusing souls -- "Interesting experiments" and "curious operations": transfusion as medical news -- The transfused transformed: fictions of transfusion in the periodical press -- "Miraculously re-embodied": William Delisle Hay's Blood: a tragic tale -- Surgical vampirism: the afterlife of bloodletting -- Delivering Lucy: vampire obstetrics in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Coda: the call to arms