
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. Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity fills that gap as the first sustained study of Joyce''s artistic uses of turn-of-the-century medical discourses.
In this ...
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. Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity fills that gap as the first sustained study of Joyce''s artistic uses of turn-of-the-century medical discourses.
In this ...