Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity
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Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity

  1. 203 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity

About this book

James Joyce's interest in medicine has been well established--he attempted to embark on medical studies no fewer than three times--but a comprehensive assessment of the influence his interest in medicine had on his work has been lacking until now. Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity fills that gap as the first sustained study of Joyce's artistic uses of turn-of-the-century medical discourses.

In this wide-ranging study, author Vike Plock balances close readings of Joyce's major texts with thorough archival research that retrieves principal late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical debates. The result is a fascinating book that details the ways in which Joyce reconciled, integrated, and blurred the paradigmatic boundaries between scientific and humanist learning.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Joyce and Modern Medicine
  12. 2. “Alcoh alcoho alcoherently”: Alcoholism and Doubling in “Counterparts”
  13. 3. “The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution”: Medicine and Morals in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  14. 4. “The True Purefoy Nose”: Medicine, Obstetrics, and the Aesthetics of Reproduction in “Oxen of the Sun”
  15. 5. “Nerves Overstrung”: Neuroscience and Ergography in “Eumaeus”
  16. 6. “On the Hands Down”: Eugen Sandow and Physical Culture in “Ithaca”
  17. 7. Jack the Ripper and The Family Physician: Gynecology and Domestic Medicine in “Penelope”
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index