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University of Virginia Press, Chaarlottesville
"Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials....
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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"Tranfusion examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of human-to-human blood transfusion alongside literary works that exploited the operation's sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials. This study explores transfusion's role in now-canonical works such as H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Bram Stoker's Dracula as well as in an array of lesser-known short stories and novels."-- Introduction : Vital transactions -- Transfusing souls : the dead end of sympathy -- "Interesting experiments" and "curious operations" : transfusion as medical news -- The transfused transformed : fictions of transfusion in the periodical press -- "Miraculously re-embodied" : William Delisle Hay's Blood : a tragic tale -- Surgical vampirism : the afterlife of bloodletting -- Delivering Lucy : vampire obstetrics in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Coda : the call to arms.
