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Author Caldwell, Janis McLarren.

Title Literature and medicine in nineteenth century Britain : from Mary Shelley to George Eliot / Janis McLarren Caldwell.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  PR868.M42 C35 2004    Available  ---
Description xi, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Romantic materialism -- Science and sympathy in Frankenstein -- Natural supernaturalism in Thomas Carlyle and Richard Owen -- Wuthering heights and domestic medicine: the child's body and the book -- Literalization in the novels of Charlotte Bronte -- Charles Darwin and Romantic medicine -- Middlemarch and the medical case.
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Medicine in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and medicine.
Great Britain.
History.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Women authors.
ISBN 0521843340
9780521843348