Hannah C. (Hrsg.) Tweed

Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern

Dissecting the Page

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This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study, little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand paratext as the apparatus of graphic communication: title pages, prefaces, illustrations, marginalia, and publishing details which act as mediators between text and reader. Discussing the development of medical paratexts across scribal, print and digital media, the collection spans the medieval period to the twenty-first century. Dissecting the Page is structured in two thematic sections,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Scott, Diane G. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-73426-2
EAN: 9783319734262
Produktnummer: 27381730
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 178 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 5'268 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
Abbildungen: 23 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Hannah C. Tweed is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of York, UK, on the 'Cultures of Care' project. She received her PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK, on representations of autism in contemporary literature and film. Her research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century literature, with specialisations in disability studies and the medical humanities. Diane G. Scott is the Research Associate for the AHRC Digital Transformations Theme and teaches in the department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. She received her PhD on late medieval book history from the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on fifteenth and sixteenth century literacy and literary culture.