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Research Monographs in French Studies: Language of Disease : Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France by Steven Wilson (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTaylor & Francis Group

ISBN-101781885648

ISBN-139781781885642

eBay Product ID (ePID)20069227044

Product Key Features

Number of Pages158 Pages

Publication NameLanguage of Disease : Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century France

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

SubjectEuropean / French, Modern / 20th Century, History

TypeTextbook

AuthorSteven Wilson

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Medical

SeriesResearch Monographs in French Studies

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight9.3 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume NumberVol. 62

Dewey Decimal809.933561

SynopsisWhile the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social anxieties with which it was associated, including degeneracy, depopulation, state surveillance and public morality. In this interdisciplinary study, Steven Wilson redirects attention onto the body as locus of syphilis. Combining a critical medical humanities approach with close readings of medical and literary texts, Wilson explores the ways in which canonical and non-canonical writers of the time found a language to represent the diseased body. Drawing on scholarship from gender studies, theology, pain studies and word/image relations, this engaging study investigates what the language used in nineteenth-century French literature tells us not only about the pathological function and lived experience of syphilis, but about the role played by literature in representing disease. Steven Wilson is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Queen's University Belfast.