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A perverse history of the human heart / Milad Doueihi.
Van Pelt Library PN56.H374 D68 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doueihi, Milad.
- Standardized Title:
- Histoire perverse du coeur humain. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Heart in literature.
- Cannibalism in literature.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- The heart has a history as long and complex, and often as sordid, as that of the secret life it once signified. This is the fascinating history that Milad Doueihi tells in a book that follows the adventures of the human heart from the myth of Dionysos to works of Dante, Boccaccio and Francis Bacon; from the Eucharist to the emergence of medicine; from antiquity to early modern times.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) and index.
- ISBN:
- 067466325X
- 0674663276
- OCLC:
- 37341293
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