Imagined human vivisections and the revelation of the soul : the classical tradition, John Donne, Jonathan Swift, and George Eliot
This thesis explores a history of viewing vivisection as a means to revealing the nature and condition of the human soul and literary applications of these ideas. It argues that vivisection acquired this significance under certain conditions which were only intermittently present during the long per...
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University of Oxford
2011
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550523 |