Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity (Florida James Joyce Series) - Softcover

Plock, Vike Martina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813042267 ISBN 13: 9780813042268

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2012

Synopsis

<p>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. </p> <p>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. </p>

About this title

About the Author:

<p>Vike Martina Plock is lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. </p>

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0813042267
• ISBN 13: 9780813042268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204