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Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain : = from Mary Shelley to George Eliot /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain :/ Janis McLarren Caldwell.
Reminder of title:	from Mary Shelley to George Eliot /
remainder title:	Literature & Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author:	Caldwell, Janis McLarren,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484742
ISBN:	9780511484742 (ebook)

Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain : = from Mary Shelley to George Eliot /
Caldwell, Janis McLarren,

Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain :from Mary Shelley to George Eliot /Literature & Medicine in Nineteenth-Century BritainJanis McLarren Caldwell. - 1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;46. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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 Brontës 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.

ISBN: 9780511484742 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

560374
English literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR868.M42 / C35 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/3561

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