Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century by Cogan, Lucy

Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031133626)

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Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century by Cogan, Lucy

Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century

$139.99
Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century by Cogan, Lucy

Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century

$139.99
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores how the writers, poets, thinkers, historians, scientists, dilettantes and frauds of the long-nineteenth century addressed the "limit cases" regarding human existence that medicine continuously uncovered as it stretched the boundaries of knowledge. These cases cast troubling and distorted shadows on the culture, throwing into relief the values, vested interests, and power relations regarding the construction of embodied life and consciousness that underpinned the understanding of what it was to be alive in the long nineteenth century. Ranging over a period from the mid-eighteenth century through to the first decade of the twentieth century-an era that has been called the 'Age of Science'-the essays collected here consider the cultural ripple effects of those previously unimaginable revolutions in science and medicine on humanity's understanding of being.



Author: Lucy Cogan
ISBN-10: 3031133625
ISBN-13: 9783031133626
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2022
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d
By Lucy Cogan
By Lucy Cogan
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Lucy Cogan is Lecturer in English (Long-Eighteenth Century) at NUI Galway, Ireland. She has published a monograph on William Blake entitled Blake and the Failure of Prophecy (2021) and a range of articles and essays on gender and sexuality in Blake's writing, and on women's writing in the long-eighteenth century.
Michelle O'Connell is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published essays and articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry and fiction, and is currently working on a full-length study of the construction of the nineteenth-century female poetic subject.

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