Kit Yee Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3867170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kit Yee Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kit Yee |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG K Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0807-3138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medicine and mythology in Émile Zola’s La Curée (1872): The tragedy of Renée
This article argues that Zola’s use of Ovid and the Phaedra myth in La Curée (1872) illustrates medical attitudes to the female body in nineteenth-century France through his protagonist Renée. As medical authorities supported the early Third Republic (1870–1940) to repopulate the country, women’s bodies came under intense scrutiny. The professionalization of medicine from the mid-century medicalized the ‘ideal’ woman’s body, and any deviation led…
The Symbiosis of Language(s), Literature, and the Medical Humanities
This Special Collection focuses on the 'pathological body' in literature, from the socio-cultural anxieties around the human body to the sick body's relationship with language(s) and translation. The six articles-from Italian, German, Spanish, French literatures-explore posthuman female body-subjectivity; catalepsy as a framework to reorient traditional gender narratives; the violence of maintaining a socially acceptable subjecthood; the body as …
Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola's 'La Faute de l'abbé Mouret'
This article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola's La Faute de l’abbé Mouret (The Sin of Father Mouret, 1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republican discourses compete. Using Paul Ricœur’s theory on Christianity’s original sin, this article compares Mouret’s si…
‘The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives’, IMLR, 20 September 2019
The Symbiosis of Language(s), Literature, and the Medical Humanities
This Special Collection focuses on the 'pathological body' in literature, from the socio-cultural anxieties around the human body to the sick body's relationship with language(s) and translation. The six articles-from Italian, German, Spanish, French literatures-explore posthuman female body-subjectivity; catalepsy as a framework to reorient traditional gender narratives; the violence of maintaining a socially acceptable subjecthood; the body as …
‘The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives’, IMLR, 20 September 2019
Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola's 'La Faute de l'abbé Mouret'
This article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola's La Faute de l’abbé Mouret (The Sin of Father Mouret, 1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republican discourses compete. Using Paul Ricœur’s theory on Christianity’s original sin, this article compares Mouret’s si…
The Symbiosis of Language(s), Literature, and the Medical Humanities
This Special Collection focuses on the 'pathological body' in literature, from the socio-cultural anxieties around the human body to the sick body's relationship with language(s) and translation. The six articles-from Italian, German, Spanish, French literatures-explore posthuman female body-subjectivity; catalepsy as a framework to reorient traditional gender narratives; the violence of maintaining a socially acceptable subjecthood; the body as …
Medicine and mythology in Émile Zola’s La Curée (1872): The tragedy of Renée
This article argues that Zola’s use of Ovid and the Phaedra myth in La Curée (1872) illustrates medical attitudes to the female body in nineteenth-century France through his protagonist Renée. As medical authorities supported the early Third Republic (1870–1940) to repopulate the country, women’s bodies came under intense scrutiny. The professionalization of medicine from the mid-century medicalized the ‘ideal’ woman’s body, and any deviation led…
French Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Mythology (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Body politic (1 works) · Christianity (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 works) · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (1 works)