Vivisection and late-Victorian literary culture /
"This is the first interdisciplinary literary-critical study of vivisection. It reveals how animal experimentation intrigued diverse writers, raised major representational issues, and seeped into the heart of nineteenth-century culture. It represents a landmark in nineteenth-century literature,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
152. |
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Table of Contents:
- Protest. Forging literary connections
- Reading, feeling, acting
- Reading vivisectors. Textual strategies: decoding the 'real' vivisector
- Visual strategies: medico-literary bodies
- Representing pain. Non-human tellers and translations
- H. G. Wells on the possibilities of painlessness
- Writing as vivisection. Continental naturalism: observation and experiment
- Vivisection and British literary criticism.