Cures for Modernity: Medicine in Interwar Russian and Czech Literature and Cinema

Author:   Christian Emden ,  David Midgley ,  Julia Sutton-Mattocks
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   35
ISBN:  

9781800792937


Pages:   318
Publication Date:   26 September 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Cures for Modernity: Medicine in Interwar Russian and Czech Literature and Cinema


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Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech literature and cinema: syphilis, nervous illness, surgery and childbirth. It offers new perspectives on major writers like Bulgakov and Zamiatin as well as lesser known counterparts.

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Author:   Christian Emden ,  David Midgley ,  Julia Sutton-Mattocks
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   35
Weight:   0.483kg
ISBN:  

9781800792937


ISBN 10:   180079293
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   26 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Julia Sutton-Mattocks is a Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Czech at the University of Bristol, where she received her PhD. She was co-supervised by the University of Exeter and funded by the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership. Her research interests are in the literary and visual culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the practice and networks of translation and publishing, and intermedial connections, especially between literature, cinema and art.

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