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Title page of an old edition of Henry James's The Ambassadors

Tales of Two Jameses: Literature, science and medicine at the end of the nineteenth century

As a research assistant with Diseases of Modern Life, I will be looking at fin-de-siècle representations of mental illness and addiction, especially as these afflictions were conceived as being transferred among hereditary lines.
26 Feb 2019

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