Joyce, medicine, and modernity
By: Vike Martina Plock ; foreword by Sebastian D. G. Knowles.
Series: The Florida James Joyce series
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813034232
Subjects: Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation; Joyce, James, -- 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Medicine; Medicine in literature; Literature and medicine -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Joyce and modern medicine; title: Alcoh alcoho alcoherently: alcoholism and doubling in Counterparts; title: The heinous sin of self-pollution: medicine and morals in A portrait of the artist as a young man; title: The true purefoy nose: medicine, obstetrics, and the aesthetics of reproduction in Oxen of the sun; title: Nerves overstrung: neuroscience and ergography in Eumaeus; title: On the hands down: Eugen Sandow and physical culture in Ithaca; title: Jack the Ripper and the family physician: gynecology and domestic medicine in Penelope.