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ISSN 1824-484X · Firenze University Press · 551 artikel di indeks
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The Stigma on “the Tigress-Cub”: Late-Victorian Psychiatric Genetics and Wilkie Collins’ The Legacy of Cain
This article explores the intersections of Victorian medicine and literature by examining medical treatises on hereditary psychosis and criminal instincts and Wilkie Collins’ The Legacy of Cain (1888). It first considers the ideas of Prosper Lucas, Bénédict A. Morel, and Henry Maudsley, focusing on…
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The Doctor-Writer and the Boundaries of Literariness: The Case of Dannie Abse
This article explores the complex intersections between the roles of physician and writer, focusing on the interpretive challenges inherent in this twofold identity. The works of Dannie Abse (1923-2014), a Welsh-Jewish writer and chest physician, serve as an ideal case study to explore these…
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“I am at last vanquished by sickness”: The Narrative of Illness and Disability in Mary Darby Robinson’s Letters
This essay will analyse how Mary Robinson recounted her disability and illness in her last letters to her friends. The investigation will explore how she perceived herself as a woman, a mother, a professional writer and a patient in distress, using her pen to construct her multilayered identity. At…
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Constructing Scholarly Ethos in Non-mainstream Medical Research Writing: Discursive and Linguistic Strategies
At a time when mainstream, biomedical research and practice continue to frame the discourse about health, non-mainstream, or alternative/complementary medical research is now gaining ground in some academic publishing venues. While non-mainstream researchers are likely to work twice as hard to…
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“A volitional interference”: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study on Birth Control in Edwardian England
The Edwardian period (1901-ca.1910) saw numerous social changes that deeply transformed Britain and its society. A series of reforms that what would lay the foundations of the welfare state constituted a widespread source of public debate throughout the British press. Birth control was among the…
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Diffusing the Vir/us: Derek Jarman’s Transmedial Eco-logy as Pharmacopoeia
Decades after the outbreak of aids, the disease is still a crucial topic in identity politics, as the queer community strives for worldwide recognition. Past guilt-ridden representations of the aids epidemic, much has been done towards a less dehumanizing re-evaluation of those deemed responsible…
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Discourses of Health, Wellbeing, and Sanitation in the Victorian Anti-Vaccination Popular Press: A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis of the VicVaDis Corpus
The study explores discourses of health, wellbeing, illness, disease, and sanitation in Victorian anti-vaccination literature through a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the VicVaDis corpus performed using the LancsBox tool. The analysis reveals that Victorian anti-vaccinationists consistently…
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Doctors and Medical Practices in Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest
Medical practice and the Gothic imagination within the context of medicine and literature in the late eighteenth century present fruitful intersections that have only recently been investigated, since they both transgress and test the limits of human knowledge. As a major representative of Gothic…
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Echoes of Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis in Scientific Periodicals: Sexual and Mental Pathology in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century Medical Discourse
This essay proposes a corpus-based terminological analysis of the language of moral decadence, sexual deviance and mental degeneration introduced and/or popularised by Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis. It also investigates the resonance that this domain-specific terminology may have…
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“Das Momentane wird momentan gegeben”. Il profilo semantico del connettivo nun nello Zeitroman di Hans Fallada Kleiner Mann, was nun?
Oggetto del lavoro è lo studio del profilo semantico del connettivo tedesco nun sulla base delle sue attestazioni nel romanzo Kleiner Mann, was nun? (1932) di Hans Fallada. Nelle descrizioni grammaticali e lessicografiche questo connettivo è tipicamente categorizzato come avverbio temporale o come…
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Translating Decadence
Building on the assumptions that decadence is a complex and transnational phenomenon, this volume proposes fresh understandings of the theory and practice of translation. Icelandic poetry and a Japanese novel rub shoulders with Latvian translations of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and…
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Il tedesco austriaco tra percezione e uso nel contesto scritto standard. Analisi di uno studio pilota condotto su studenti madrelingua
Questo studio descrive un esperimento linguistico condotto tra studenti universitari austriaci di Innsbruck, incentrato sul tedesco austriaco. L'obiettivo è quello di capire la percezione che i madrelingua hanno della loro varietà linguistica e dell'uso che fanno delle strutture tipicamente…
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Johnson’s Dictionary and “the Lexicons of Ancient Tongues”
Though Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (1755) is often compared with the major vernacular dictionaries of the 17th century, a better point of comparison is the early modern lexicons of the classical languages, which Johnson knew well, and which informed his practice in his own lexicography.
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A Mythological Dictionary. The Gentleman and Lady’s Key to Polite Literature
An investigation on the nature and sources of The Gentleman and Lady’s Key to Polite Literature (London: J. Newbury, ca. 1761), a dictionary of mythology that results to have been a hasty compilation mainly based on Pierre Chompré’s and André de Claustre’s French dictionaries, and from Ainsworth’s…