Transfusion: Blood And Sympathy In The Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials. This study explores transfusion's role in now-canonical works such as H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as in an array of lesser-known short stories and novels. --

• | Author: Ann Louise Kibbie
• | Publisher: University Of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 26, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 294 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0813943728
• | ISBN-13: 9780813943725