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Download or read book Adulterous Alliances written by Richard Helgerson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result is an unexpected prehistory of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century cult of domesticity."--BOOK JACKET.

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Download or read book Dracula for Doctors written by Fiona Subotsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the connection between medicine and gothic literature examining disease, psychiatry and supernatural in the nineteenth century.

Download or read book Revival A Textbook of Insanity 1914 written by Charles Arthur Mercier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was primarily intended for the use of students of medicine, as an introduction to the study of insanity, to give them a general notion of the subject without going into much detail, and incidentally to be of use to them in examinations. It was not intended as an advanced book for those who make a special study of insanity.

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