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1 online resource (xi, 201 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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| 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. |
| Summary |
Although we have come to regard 'clinical' and 'romantic' as oppositional terms, romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configurations. In the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century, writers and doctors developed an interpretive method that negotiated between literary and scientific knowledge of the natural world. Literary writers produced potent myths that juxtaposed the natural and the supernatural, often disturbing the conventional dualist hierarchy of spirit over flesh. Clinicians developed the two-part history and physical examination, weighing the patient's narrative against the evidence of the body. Examining fiction by Mary Shelley, Carlyle, the Brontes and George Eliot, alongside biomedical lectures, textbooks and articles, Janis McLarren Caldwell demonstrates the similar ways of reading employed by nineteenth-century doctors and imaginative writers and reveals the complexities and creative exchanges of the relationship between literature and medicine. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in literature. |
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Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and medicine. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Women authors. |
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United Kingdom. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Caldwell, Janis McLarren. Literature and medicine in nineteenth century Britain. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 0521843340 9780521843348 (DLC) 2004052122 (OCoLC)55502676 |
| ISBN |
9780511266171 (electronic book) |
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0511266170 (electronic book) |
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0511263929 |
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9780511263927 |
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051126545X (electronic book) |
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9780511265457 (electronic book) |
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9780511484742 (electronic book) |
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0511484747 (electronic book) |
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1280750189 |
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9781280750182 |
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0521843340 (Cloth) |
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