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Transfusion Blood and Sympathy in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Title
Transfusion [electronic resource] : Blood and Sympathy in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination / Ann Louise Kibbie.
ISBN
0813943140
9780813943145
0813943728
9780813943138 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813943725
Published
Chaarlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials. This study explores transfusion's role in now-canonical works such as H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as in an array of lesser-known short stories and novels." -- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
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Other formats
Online version: Kibbie, Ann Louise, 1959- author. Transfusion. Chaarlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 31, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Vital transactions
Transfusing souls
"Interesting experiments" and "curious operations": transfusion as medical news
The transfused transformed: fictions of transfusion in the periodical press
"Miraculously re-embodied": William Delisle Hay's Blood: a tragic tale
Surgical vampirism: the afterlife of bloodletting
Delivering Lucy: vampire obstetrics in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Coda: the call to arms.
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