1st Edition
Modernists versus Medicine in Literature Mann, Céline, Beckett, and the Challenge of Medicalization
By Allen Thiher
Copyright 2027
344 Pages
by
Routledge
This academic work explores the pivotal shift in Western thought when disease replaced sin as the fundamental framework for understanding human existence. This volume examines how this transformation shaped literary modernism through three exemplary writers who confronted the growing medicalization of human life.
The book traces medicine's evolving relationship with literature across European... Read more
Introduction
Chapter One: The Background
Chapter Two: Thomas Mann: The Diagnostic Manual as Fate
Chapter Three: L.-F. Céline and the Nihilistic Vision of Pathology
Chapter Four: Samuel Beckett: Physiological Farce
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Appendix: Scientific Racism, Eugenics, and Genetics
Biography
Allen Thiher is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Emeritus of Romance Languages at the University of Missouri.
