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This book explores the influences of both the Romantic movement and the rise of scientific medicine. Tackles present-day attitudes, including the cultural impact of heart transplants. Truly interdisciplinary draws on history, literary theory, anthropology, gender studies, and sociology. Matters of the Heart traces the ways emotions have been understood between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries as both physical entities and spiritual experiences. With reference to historical interpretations of such key concepts as gender, emotion, subjectivity and the self, it also addresses the shifting relationship from heart to brain as competing centres of emotion in the West. ISBN - 9780199606047
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Pages : 240
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