Author: Amanda Mordavsky Caleb

  • Jacyna, L. S., Medicine and Modernism

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    L. S. Jacyna, Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Sir Henry Head, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series, 6 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008) 368 pp. £60 hb. ISBN 13: 978-1-85-196907-4 Students of the humanities and the sciences (and those who dare to cross the boundaries) are very familiar with the arguments regarding…

  • Blair, Kirstie, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart

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    Kirstie Blair, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) 288 pp. £56 hb. ISBN13: 978-0-19-927394-2 Of all the –ologies discussed in relation to Victorian literature—neurology, psychology, gynaecology, and even toxicology—cardiology is strangely absent from the list. Given the unhealthy Victorian interest in disease and death, it is surprising that…

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