Representing Epilepsy: Myth and Matter

by Jeannette Stirling

At least 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. Representing Epilepsy, the latest volume in LUP's acclaimed Representations series, seeks to understand the epileptic body as a literary or figurative device intelligible beyond a medical framework. Jeannette Stirling argues that neurological discourse from the late-nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century is as much forged by the cultural conditions and representational politics of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184631237X
• ISBN13: 9781846312373
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"