Cargando…

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caldwell, Janis McLarren (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.