TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferris,Kathleen
TI  - James Joyce & the Burden of Disease
SN  - 9780813149820
AV  - PR6019 .J364 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Joyce, James,
KW  - Novelists, Irish
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Syphilis
KW  - Patients
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Sexually transmitted diseases in literature
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Syphilis in literature
KW  - Health in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 The Creative Daemon; 2 The Wandering Jew in Ulysses; 3 Epics of the Body; 4 An Insectfable; Epilogue: Dear mysterre Shame's Voice; Chronology of Joyce's Medical History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; S; T; V; W; Y; 2; b
N2  - James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection
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