James Joyce & the Burden of Disease

By:

Ferris, Kathleen, 1941- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813149820

Other title:

James Joyce and the burden of disease

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PR6019 .J364 1995

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Subject: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PR6019.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn900344393

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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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