Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity

by Vike Martina Plock

Overview

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.

In this wide-ranging study, author Vike Plock balances close readings of Joyce’s major texts with thorough archival research that retrieves principal late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical debates. The result is a fascinating book that details the ways in which Joyce reconciled, integrated, and blurred the paradigmatic boundaries between scientific and humanist learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813042268
Publisher:	University Press of Florida
Publication date:	07/08/2012
Series:	Florida James Joyce
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Vike Martina Plock is lecturer in English at the University of Exeter.