Medical Muses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medical Muses write by Asti Hustvedt. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Medical Muses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women. There, prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot's contentious methods caused furore within the church and divided the medical community. Treatments included hypnosis, piercing and the evocation of demons and, despite the controversy they caused, the experiments became a fascinating and fashionable public spectacle. Medical Muses tells the stories of the women institutionalised in the Salpêtrière. Theirs is a tale of science and ideology, medicine and the occult, of hypnotism, sadism, love and theatre. Combining hospital records, municipal archives, memoirs and letters, Medical Muses sheds new light on a crucial moment in psychiatric history.
Shaggy Muses
Shaggy Muses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shaggy Muses write by Maureen Adams. This book was released on 2009-02-04. Shaggy Muses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “You’ll call this sentimental–perhaps–but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,” Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. And it is this private, playful side, the richness and power of the bond between five great women writers and their dogs, that Maureen Adams celebrates in this deeply engaging book. In Shaggy Muses, we visit Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Flush, the golden Cocker Spaniel who danced the poet away from death, back to life and human love. We roam the wild Yorkshire moors with Emily Brontë, whose fierce Mastiff mix, Keeper, provided a safe and loving outlet for the writer’s equally fierce spirit. We enter the creative sanctum of Emily Dickinson, which she shared only with Carlo, the gentle, giant Newfoundland who soothed her emotional terrors. We mingle with Edith Wharton, whose ever-faithful Pekes warmed her lonely heart during her restless travels among Europe and America’ s social and intellectual elite. We are privileged guests in the fragile universe of Virginia Woolf, who depended for emotional support and sanity not only on her human loved ones but also on her dogs, especially Pinka–a gift from her lover, Vita Sackville-West–a black Cocker Spaniel who became a strong, bright thread in the fabric of Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s life together. Based on diaries, letters, and other contemporary accounts–and featuring many illustrations of the writers and their dogs– these five miniature biographies allow us unparalleled intimacy with women of genius in their hours of domestic ease and inner vulnerability. Shaggy Muses also enchants us with a pack of new friends: Flush, Keeper, Carlo, Foxy, Linky, Grizzle, Pinka, and all the other devoted canines who loved and served these great writers.
The Lives of the Muses
The Lives of the Muses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lives of the Muses write by Francine Prose. This book was released on 2009-03-17. The Lives of the Muses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros. In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process.
Muses
Muses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muses write by Conrad Roset. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Muses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since drawing his first muse as a student of Fine Arts until today, Conrad Roset (Terrassa, 1984) has been tracing his style about women0;s bodies with this desire to fix a own style, a unique and non-transferable aesthetic, which has already located as a world reference illustrator. Technique, game, trial and error, the beauty of the female body, the merge in this book that brings together the work of an artist who has fascinated people from all over the world.
The Medical Muse, Grave and Gay
The Medical Muse, Grave and Gay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medical Muse, Grave and Gay write by John F. B. Lillard. This book was released on 1895. The Medical Muse, Grave and Gay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
