Joseph Conrad and psychological medicine / Martin Bock.

  • Bock, Martin, 1951-
Date:
[2002], ©2002
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Publication/Creation

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2002], ©2002.

Physical description

xxiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

Lunacy, Conrad, and his doctors. Before Freud ; Conrad's water cures ; Conrad's breakdown -- Reading medically. The vivid, nervous descriptions of Conrad's fiction ; Restraint ; Solitude/seclusion ; Water ; Medical allegory in the later novels -- Conclusion: the heart in its perplexity -- Joseph Conrad's medical entourage.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-258) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CU.AA8-9
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0896724832