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The Rhetoric of Disfigurement in First World War Britain

During the First World War, the horror of facial mutilation was evoked in journalism, poems, memoirs and fiction; but in Britain it was almost never represented visually outside the professional contexts of clinical medicine and medical history. This article asks why, and offers an account of Britis...

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Autor principal: Biernoff, Suzannah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223959/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkq095