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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...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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Table of 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.