2 options
Transfusion Blood and Sympathy in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination / Ann Louise Kibbie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kibbie, Ann Louise, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blood--Symbolic aspects.
- Blood.
- Blood transfusion in literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Chaarlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8139-4314-0
- OCLC:
- 1112130785
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.