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Cures for Modernity: Medicine in Interwar Russian and Czech Literature and Cinema
Paperback
Series: Cultural History and Literary Imagination, Book 35
ISBN13: 9781800792937
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Sep 26 2023
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This monograph makes an original and significant scholarly contribution, in addition to being a gripping read. Not only is it the first book in English to compare Russian and Czechoslovak literature and film of the interwar period in such a comprehensive way, but it does so via the growing discipline of the medical humanities. The book's greatest strength is its attention to detail, exemplified by Sutton-Mattocks's close readings of the medical implications of the creative works she selects.
(Melissa Miller, Modern Language Review 120.1, January 2025)
Her comparative approach using Czech and Russian work enriches the field by moving beyond national boundaries to show how interwar medical discourses were both locally specific and transnationally resonant. It also expands the scope of medical humanities beyond its usual Anglo-American and Western European focus, demonstrating the importance of Eastern European contributions.
(Dylan Mohr, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 1-2, 2025)
Surgery, bacteriology, psychiatry ... medicine fascinated writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s. But why did medicine capture the creative imagination at precisely that moment, and what does the prevalence of medical imagery in works of the period tell us about interwar culture? These are the questions at the heart of this book, which takes the Russian and Czech literary and cinematic contexts as case studies for interrogating the wider phenomenon.
Contributing to an emerging body of scholarship bringing the Medical Humanities and Slavonic Studies into dialogue, the book focuses on four particularly prevalent medical themes in the literature and cinema of the period: syphilis, nervous illness, surgery and childbirth. It offers new perspectives on works by well-known figures of interwar Russian and Czech culture (e.g. Mikhail Bulgakov, Evgenii Zamiatin, Gustav Machatý and Vladislav Vančura) as well as familiarizing readers with more obscure works by some of their lesser-known counterparts, such as VladimÃr Raffel, Vikentii Veresaev, Nikolai Aseev and Noi Galkin.
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