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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	PN3503 .R5955 2012		AVAILABLE

Author	Rogers, Charlotte, 1979-
Title	Jungle fever : exploring madness and medicine in twentieth-century tropical narratives / Charlotte Rogers.
OCLC	746316023
ISBN	9780826518316 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
	0826518311 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
Publisher	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2012]
	�2012
Description	ix, 234 pages ; 27 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Jungles in literature.
	Mental illness in literature.
	Belief and doubt in literature.
	Tropics -- In literature.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Medical discourse and modernist prose in Heart of darkness -- Pathological philosophies of decay in The way of the kings -- Writing (in) the vortex: madness, medicine, and the lost notebooks of Arturo Cova -- "No era para narrado:" narrating madness in Canaima -- Surrealism, science, and sanity in The lost steps -- Conclusion.

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