Cures for Modernity: Medicine in Interwar Russian and Czech Literature and Cinema

Why did medicine fascinate writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s? This book traces the prevalent medical themes in interwar Russian and Czech literature and cinema: syphilis, nervous illness, surgery and childbirth. It offers new perspectives on major writers like Bulgakov and Zamiatin as well as lesser known counterparts.

Julia Sutton-Mattocks is a Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Czech at the University of Bristol, where she received her PhD. She was co-supervised by the University of Exeter and funded by the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership. Her research interests are in the literary and visual culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the practice and networks of translation and publishing, and intermedial connections, especially between literature, cinema and art.