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

Janis McLarren Caldwell

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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[目次]

  • 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 Bronte
  • 6. Charles Darwin and Romantic medicine
  • 7. Middlemarch and the medical case report: the patient's narrative and the physical exam
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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書名 Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain : from Mary Shelley to George Eliot
著作者等 Beer, Gillian
Caldwell Janis McLarren
シリーズ名 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2004
ページ数 xi, 201 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521843340
NCID BA69529276
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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