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“Sound, Substantial Flesh and Blood”: T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker” and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., the medicalized body becomes the metaphorical locus of a profound epistemological unease, and the interventionist apparatuses of medicine and of cinema become folded into a more general problematic of style. Whereas Eliot’s poem repeatedly breaks the frame of classical rhyme, meter, and structure in order...
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“Electrical Nutrition and Glandular Control”: Eugenics, Progressive Science, and George Schuyler’s Black No More
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 113–150.
Published: 01 June 2022
... investment in eugenic science as a tool of social reform. The novel draws on popular scientific theories of human perfection—electric medicine, hygienic nutrition, and glandular theory—to envision a mode of technological reproduction that troubles eugenic theories of biological inheritance and parodies...
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A Turning Point in Native American Fiction?
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 388–395.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Ceremony, Welch’s Fools Crow, and Erdrich’s Love Medicine to
be “great” but insists that they deserve respect for their artistic excellence,
not for the supposedly authentic embodiment of their authors’ traditional
cultures. They offer limited insight into those cultures, he charges...
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Amy Gerstler’s Rhetoric of Marriage
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., “The Bride Goes Wild,” entirely out of film titles. That
poem ends: “Naked, the Invisible Woman Cries and Whispers / Noth
ing but the Truth,Too Scared to Scream” (Medicine 37).The three poems
under discussion here brim with phrases that sound like invented movie
titles: “the keepers daughter...
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Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction: Environment and Affect by Heather Houser
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 280–286.
Published: 01 June 2015
... and the lives it affected (73). Where chapter 2 focuses on discords (urban/nonurban, healthy/sick, media/medicine), chapter 3 focuses on the affect of “wonder.” In “Richard Powers’s Strange Wonder,” Houser takes on Powers’s The Echo Maker (1996), with some attention to his earlier The Gold Bug Variations...
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Ezra Pound’s Egypt and the Origin of the Cantos
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2002
... were “a people so far
passing other nations, as it is better and nearer to God, to work and to
do great wonderous things than to behold and look upon them” (1.13).
Heydon contends that this emphasis on practical action led the Egyp
tians to develop a unique system of medicine, which...
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Monstrosity on Trial: The Case of Naked Lunch
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2006
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designation in the technical discourse of medicine and psychiatry, the
condition was converted into a sexualized figure of popular peril.6 The
crispest indicator of this change was the psychopath’s juridical codifica
tion. Between the mid-1930s and the mid-1950s, more than half of the
states...
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Symptom and Sign: Janet, Freud, Eliot, and the Literary Mandate of Laughter
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2010
...:
The Academy of Medicine has not as yet been able to explain
the mysterious condition of hysteria. In women, it acts like a
stifling ball rising in the body (I mention only the main symp-
tom), while in nervous men it can be the cause of many forms
of impotence as well...
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Radical Violence Inside Out: Woolf, Klein, and Interwar Politics
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 175–198.
Published: 01 June 2006
... grateful to Hirosi Muto and Hideaki Suzuki for their invaluable
comments on early drafts of this essay. My thanks are also due to the Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine and the Wellcome Library for the
History and Understanding of Medicine, which gave me, as the center’s re
search...
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“Chaos Invading Concept”: Blast as a Native Theory of Promotional Culture
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 238–268.
Published: 01 June 2000
... in the interests of bourgeois religion.15 They also
blast Sydney Webb, the Fabian socialist who supported state-controlled ad
vertising. A particularly interesting “blast” was that of “Beecham (Pills, Op
era, Thomas) ” (21). Beecham’s Pills were a heavily promoted medicine that
trumpeted fraudulent claims...
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Midnight’s Children: Kashmir and the Politics of Identity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 510–544.
Published: 01 December 2001
... the
contrary. Unlike Gandhi, Rushdie clearly feels that modernity brings
open-mindedness and liberality—and material benefits such as medicine
(so well represented in the character of the physician, Aadam Aziz). It is
important, and valuable. That is why Rushdie tries to salvage national...
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Trans Bodies and Embodiments in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 83–104.
Published: 01 March 2023
... have to clarify that the development of trans medicine isn’t by definition antagonistic to the project of decolonization. As Gill-Peterson (2014 : 407) argues, if sex reassignment and other surgeries are often understood as attempts to conform by achieving the look of a normative man or woman...
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Modern American Abortion Narratives and the Century of Silence
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 663–687.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and ineffective abortificient pills. “None of
it’s any good,” Maude tells Dot in Viña Delmar’s Bad Girl (1928). “There’s
no medicine in the world that will do the trick. You have to have an
operation” (107). Dr. Glenn in Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy
(1925) likewise explains to the heroine...
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Religion and Science in the Making of Modernist Bodies
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2013
... goddess, a boy-priest, a Native
American medicine man, and a tree. The progression of poses gradually
produces a trance-like state that allows her to channel these figures as a
medium (97). They even take possession of her body and sing through her
voice in languages she has not studied. Vetter...
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Morbid Vitalism: Death, Decadence, and Spinozism in Barnes’s Nightwood
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of cultural progress and vitality, a sharp decline in death rates, and, perhaps as a result, the emergence of medicine as a prestige profession of the highest order (27–28). Doctors became symbols of scientific progress and sources of hope for the transcendence of death—associations that Barnes’s morbid...
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Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 513–519.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the COVID-19 emergency—and since it ought to become a mainstay of modernist studies, literature and medicine, and the broader health humanities, to read the book in years to come—is to be doubly dumbfounded that the influenza pandemic managed almost entirely to evade the gaze of modernist scholars for so...
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The Novel and the New Ethics by Dorothy J. Hale
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 491–498.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of James as an unambiguously virtuous model for the field of narrative medicine. Hale’s intellectual aversion to programmatic interpretations (philosophical or otherwise) of Jamesian ethics suggests that Nussbaum’s importance to her argument goes beyond the contrast provided by a seemingly outmoded...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 405–433.
Published: 01 December 2000
...).
The contemporary technothriller The Third Pandemic describes the de
fenses of medicine breached by a new strain of antibiotic-resistant chlamy
dia. And as if history had stood still since the Black Death, faceless bodies
are again dumped into the “grave of mankind,” the only concession to mo
dernity...
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Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Modernist Fictions of Identity
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 277–297.
Published: 01 September 2003
...: Columbia UP, 1993.
Chauncey, George Jr. “From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and
the Changing Conception of Female Deviance.” Salmagundi no. 58-
59 (FaU 1982-Winter 1983): 114-46.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John.Woodstock, NY: Overlook,
1998...
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Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human by Maren Tova Linett
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 105–112.
Published: 01 March 2023
...” and contemporary forms of “anti-aging medicine” (79) would be particularly interesting to explore further. But that link is confined largely to a digressive endnote (one of very many long discursive notes throughout the book) in which Linett describes and responds to an article by Nick Bostrom on human genetic...
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