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Jungle fever

Rogers, Charlotte, 1979-

Jungle fever exploring madness and medicine in twentieth-century tropical narratives / [electronic resource] : Charlotte Rogers. - Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (248 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780826518330


Belief and doubt in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Jungles in literature.
Prose literature--History and criticism.--20th century


Tropics--In literature


Electronic books.

PN3503 / .R5955 2012

809/.933561