BIBFRAME Work

Title

Samuel Beckett and medicine

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Maude, Ulrika (author )

Subject

• Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 (LCNAF)
• English literature--20th century--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Medicine in literature (LCSH)
• English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Classification

• DDC: 848/.91409 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: PR6003.E282 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"Offers the first sustained analysis of Beckett's abiding interest in medicine and its impact on the form and content of his work. The book advances new readings of Beckett's poetry, prose and drama, drawing on his reading notes on medicine and psychology, and on his correspondence and critical writings"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beckett's medical imagination -- Poetry, illness and medicine -- Chronic conditions : Keats, Johnson and Beckett -- Convulsive aesthetics : Charcot, Chaplin and Gilles de la Tourette -- Nerve theory, conditioned reflex and literary form -- Writing viscera : Beckett's inhuman domain -- 'Temporarily sane' : Beckett and modernist suicide -- Beckett's affective telepoetics.

Authorized Access Point

Maude, Ulrika. Samuel Beckett and medicine

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:26:47.533933+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23999426

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc