Cures for Modernity: Medicine in Interwar Russian and Czech Literature and Cinema

By Julia Sutton-Mattocks

Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech literature and cinema: syphilis, nervous illness, surgery and childbirth. It offers new perspectives on major writers like Bulgakov and Zamiatin as well as lesser known counterparts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 180079293X
• ISBN13: 9781800792937
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"