Author: Aureo Lustosa Guerios Neto
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Axelrod-Sokolov, Mark, Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles
Mark Axelrod-Sokolov, Madness in Fiction: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) 98 pp. £45.99 Hb. ISBN: 9783319705200 Literature has always been interested in representing Madness. The list of texts dealing with the issue is nearly endless, ranging from Euripides to Chekov, from Don Quixote to The Yellow Wallpaper. This topic has been…
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Lamb, Jonathan, Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
Jonathan Lamb, Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016) 328 pp. £35.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780691182933 Scurvy impacted profoundly the history of Europe’s expansion by sea and, consequently, influenced heavily its society, culture and artistic production. The scientific and medical history of scurvy was discussed by Kenneth J. Carpenter in The History of…
