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Literature and medicine in nineteenth century Britain : from Mary Shelley to George Eliot /
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 b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 201 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511266171 0511266170 0511263929 9780511263927 051126545X 9780511265457 9780511484742 0511484747 1280750189 9781280750182 9780521843348 0521843340 0511264755 9780511264757 9780521066679 0521066670 1107163609 9781107163607 0511331665 9780511331664 |