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Wounds and Wonder: Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery

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Wounds and Wonder: Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery. / Brown, Michael.
In: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 43, No. 2, 17.06.2020, p. 239-259.

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Brown, M 2020, 'Wounds and Wonder: Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 239-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12684

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Brown, M. (2020). Wounds and Wonder: Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43(2), 239-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12684

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Brown M. Wounds and Wonder: Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2020 Jun 17;43(2):239-259. Epub 2020 Feb 17. doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12684

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Brown, Michael. / Wounds and Wonder : Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery. In: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2020 ; Vol. 43, No. 2. pp. 239-259.

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