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Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Elena Fratto
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Elena Fratto
Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.
288 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 2, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231202329 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 15 mm · 566 g |
| Language | English |