Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

Dissecting the Page

Scott, Diane G.EditorTweed, Hannah C.Editor

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This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic communication: title pages, prefaces, illustrations, marginalia, and publishing details which act as mediators between text and reader. Discussing the development of medical paratexts across scribal, print and digital media, the collection spans the medieval period to the twenty-first century. Dissecting the Page is structured in two thematic sections, underpinned by a shared examination of ideas of medical and lay readership and a history of reader response. The first section focuses on the production, reception, and use of medical texts. The second section analyses the role and significance of authority, access, and dissemination in discussions of health, medicine, and illness, for both lay and medical readerships.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-319-73425-5

Product TypeBook

BindingHardcover

PublisherSpringer International Publishing

Publishing date25/05/2018

Edition1st ed. 2018

SeriesPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Pages200 pages

LanguageEnglish

SizeWidth 153 mm, Height 216 mm, Thickness 16 mm

Weight378 g

Article no.21653086

Publisher's article no.978-3-319-73425-5

CatalogsBuchzentrum

Data source no.25185021

Product groupSprachen

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Series

Staging Science

Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel

Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery

Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century

Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture

Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas

Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740¿1840

The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability

John Keats and the Medical Imagination

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Reading Breath in Literature

Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture

Writing Illness and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Literature, Electricity and Politics 1740-1840

Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel

Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern

Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

Tennyson and Geology

Contemporary Physics Plays

Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture

Contemporary Fiction and Science from Amis to McEwan

John Keats and the Medical Imagination

Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy

Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry

The Poetry of Knowledge and the 'Two Cultures'

Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels

Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama

Transplant Fictions

Tennyson and Geology

Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage

Contemporary Physics Plays

Creating Romantic Obsession

Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780¿1900

Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Transplant Fictions

Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage

Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry

Posthuman Capital and Biotechnology in Contemporary Novels

Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama

The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature

Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siècle

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel

Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s¿1910s

The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine

Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance

Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences

The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

Empire Under the Microscope

Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780¿1900

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare¿s The Winter¿s Tale

Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel

Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century

Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s¿1910s

The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited

Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895

Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism

Narratives of Women¿s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare¿s The Winter¿s Tale

Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century

Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry

Genetics and the Novel

William Blake's Visions

Women, Science and Fiction Revisited

Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature

Charlotte Brontë and Contagion

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

Medicine and Ethics in Black Women's Speculative Fiction

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Scott, Diane G.EditorTweed, Hannah C.Editor

Hannah C. Tweed is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of York, UK, on the 'Cultures of Care' project. She received her PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, on representations of autism in contemporary literature and film. Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century literature, with specialisations in disability studies and the medical humanities.
Diane G. Scott is the Research Associate for the AHRC Digital Transformations Theme and teaches in the department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. She received her PhD on late medieval book history from the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on fifteenth and sixteenth century literacy and literary culture.

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