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Literature Medicine 19C Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 46)

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ISBN: 0521066670
Title: Literature Medicine 19C Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 46) The Cheap Fast Free Post
Author: Caldwell, Janis McLarren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year Published: N/A
Number of Pages: 220
Book Binding: Paperback
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Book Condition: VERYGOOD
SKU: GOR009720102

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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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