Jungle fever
Subtitle: exploring madness and medicine in twentieth-century tropical narratives
By: Charlotte Rogers
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826518316
Subjects: Belief and doubt in literature; In literature; Mental illness in literature; Jungles in literature; History and criticism; Prose literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medical discourse and modernist prose in Heart of darkness; title: Pathological philosophies of decay in The way of the kings; title: Writing (in) the vortex: madness, medicine, and the lost notebooks of Arturo Cova; title: "No era para narrado:" narrating madness in Canaima; title: Surrealism, science, and sanity in The lost steps; title: Conclusion.