Antoine Dechêne, Michel Delville (dir.), Le thriller métaphysique d’Edgar Allan Poe à nos jours

Médecine de la Belle Époque à nos jours dans le Lyonnais

working classes, they soon escaped from the control of headmasters and philanthropists. But did this mean that sport had ceased to be a means of "social control", and had developed as an autonomous working-class phenomenon? The interesting point which is raised by McCrone is how women fitted into this characteristic late nineteenth-century development: was sport for women a step towards feminis...

La médecine japonaise des origines à nos jours

Edgar Allan Poe and neurology.

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most celebrated writers of all time. He published several masterpieces, some of which include references to neurological diseases. Poe suffered from recurrent depression, suggesting a bipolar disorder, as well as alcohol and drug abuse, which in fact led to his death from complications related to alcoholism. Various hypotheses were put forward, including Wernicke'...

L'Enseignement de la Médecine en France des Origines à nos Jours

So much has been written about the Great Unknown, so many people have visited Abbotsford, so many have, in the past, read the Waverley Novels, that one wonders that anyone could find it worth while to pen yet another account of the life of that painful genius, Sir Walter Scott, and it was with some trepidation that your reviewer opened this book, certain that so small a volume would be trite, o...

" The Philosophy of Composition " Edgar Allan Poe ( 1809 1849 )

I cannot think this the precise mode of procedure on the part of Godwin—and indeed what he himself acknowledges, is not altogether in accordance with Mr. Dickens’ idea— but the author of Caleb Williams was too good an artist not to perceive the advantage derivable from at least a somewhat similar process. Nothing is more clear than that every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its déno...