Syphilis and Subjectivity : From the Victorians to the Present / edited by Kari Nixon, Lorenzo Servitje.
Nixon, Kari, editor.; Servitje, Lorenzo, editor.
2018
RA418-RA418.5
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Title
Syphilis and Subjectivity : From the Victorians to the Present / edited by Kari Nixon, Lorenzo Servitje.
ISBN
9783319663678
3319663674
3319663666
9783319663661
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66367-8
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 188 pages 1 illustration in color.) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-66367-8 doi
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RA418-RA418.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.461
Summary
This book demystifies the cultural work of syphilis from the late nineteenth century to the present. By interrogating the motivations that engender habits of belief, thought, and conduct regarding the disease and notions of the self, this interdisciplinary volume investigates constructions of syphilis that had a significant role in shaping modern subjectivity. Chapters draw from a variety of scholarly methods, such as cultural and literary studies, sociology, and anthropology. Authors unravel the representations and influence of syphilis in various cultural forms: cartography, medical writings, literature, historical periodicals, and contemporary popular discourses such as internet forums and electronic news media. Exploring the ways syphilitic rhetoric responds to, generates, or threatens social systems and cultural capital offers a method by which we can better understand the geographies of blame that are central to the conceptual heritage of the disease. This unique volume will appeal to students and scholars in the medical humanities, medical sociology, the history of medicine, and Victorian and modernist studies.
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Introduction; Part I: Structuring Syphilis
Kari Nixon and Lorenzo Servitje
1. Medical Mappings of Syphilis in the Late Nineteenth Century; Monika Pietrzak-Franger.- 2. Stigmatization, Syphilis, and Prostitution: The Discursive Construction of Sex Workers, Disease, and Feeblemindedness; J.L. Schatz.- 3. Marriage, Motherhood and the Future of the Race: Syphilis in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Joanne Townsend.- 4. Suspect Bodies, Suspect Milk: Milk Sharing, Wetnursing, and the Specter of Syphilis in the 21st Century; Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster and Shannon K. Carter.- Part II: Novel Infections.- 5. Not-So-Great Expectations: Pregnancy and Syphilis in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins; Livia Woods.- 6. Unspeakable Horror: Outing Syphilis in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Nicole Cosentino and Wendy Ryden.- 7. "Everybody Has it": Syphilis and the Human Condition in the Writings of Ernest Hemingway; Lisa Tyler.

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