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Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture - Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture - Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of
visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A
rethinking of the disease with reference to its ambiguous status,
and the ways of seeing that it generated, helps reconsider the
network of socio-cultural and political interrelations which were
negotiated through syphilis, thereby also raising larger questions
about its function in the construction of individual, national and
imperial identities. This book is the first large-scale
interdisciplinary study of syphilis in late Victorian Britain whose
significance lies in its unprecedented attention to the multimedia
and multi-discursive evocations of syphilis. An examination of the
heterogeneous sources that it offers, many of which have up to this
point escaped critical attention, makes it possible to reveal the
complex and poly-ideological reasons for the activation of syphilis
imagery and its symbolic function in late Victorian culture.
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