Janis McLarren Caldwell

Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain

From Mary Shelley to George Eliot

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Produktbeschreibung

Janis McLarren Caldwell investigates the impact of medical science and the Romantic interest in material culture on nineteenth-century literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521066679
• ISBN-10: 0521066670
• Artikelnr.: 23604598

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.