Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity

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.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.

Author: Vike Martina Plock
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 07/08/2012
Series: Florida James Joyce
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780813042268