Janis McLarren Caldwell

Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain (eBook, PDF)

From Mary Shelley to George Eliot

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511262326
• Artikelnr.: 56695167

Autorenporträt

Janis McLarren Caldwell practiced emergency medicine for five years before pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature. She now teaches literature and science at Wake Forest University, where she is an Assistant Professor of English. An expert in nineteenth-century literature and medicine, she has received grants for research at Cambridge University and at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Romantic materialism
2. Science and sympathy in Frankenstein
3. Natural supernaturalism in Thomas Carlyle and Richard Owen
4. Wuthering Heights and domestic medicine: the child's body and the book
5. Literalization in the novels of Charlotte Brontë
6. Charles Darwin and Romantic medicine
7. Middlemarch and the medical case report: the patient's narrative and the physical exam
Notes
Bibliography
Index.