Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain : From Mary Shelley to George Eliot

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Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain : From Mary Shelley to George Eliot / Janis McLarren Caldwell. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, cop. 2004. - XI, 201 s. ; 23 cm.

(Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ; 46)

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McLarren Caldwell Janis.

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Książki

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LITERATURA ANGIELSKA MEDYCYNA

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English literature history criticism medicine

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.

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Index s. 199-201