The first in a two-part volume offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the eighteenth century. Leading scholars in the field provide a valuable overview of how these two diverse disciplines influenced and shaped each other throughout a period of radical change.
The first in a two-part volume offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the eighteenth century. Leading scholars in the field provide a valuable overview of how these two diverse disciplines influenced and shaped each other throughout a period of radical change.
Introduction: Literature and medicine in the long eighteenth century Clark Lawlor; Part I. Literary Modes: 1. 'Mere Flesh and Blood': Poetry, Genre and Disease Clark Lawlor; 2. Jane Barker, medical discourse, and the origins of the novel Heather Meek; 3. Imaginary invalids: The symptom and the stage from the restoration to the romantics Roberta Barker; Part II. Psyche and Soma: 4. Mental illness: Locking and unlocking the stereotypes Allan Ingram; 5. From Hypo to Bile: The rise and progress of biliousness in the long eighteenth century Hisao Ishizuka; 6. Metaphors of infectious disease in eighteenth-century literature: Complex comparatives in Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) Noelle Dückmann-Gallagher; 7. Only connect: Romantic nerves, pleasure, aesthetics and sexuality Richard C. Sha; Part III. Professional Identity and Culture: 8. Physician-authors, predisciplinarity and predatory writing: John Polidori Michelle Faubert; 9. 'The Compleat, Common Form': Disability and the literature of the British enlightenment Chris Gabbard; 10. Anatomy and interiority: Medicine, politics and identity in the long eighteenth century Corinna Wagner.
Introduction: Literature and medicine in the long eighteenth century Clark Lawlor; Part I. Literary Modes: 1. 'Mere Flesh and Blood': Poetry, Genre and Disease Clark Lawlor; 2. Jane Barker, medical discourse, and the origins of the novel Heather Meek; 3. Imaginary invalids: The symptom and the stage from the restoration to the romantics Roberta Barker; Part II. Psyche and Soma: 4. Mental illness: Locking and unlocking the stereotypes Allan Ingram; 5. From Hypo to Bile: The rise and progress of biliousness in the long eighteenth century Hisao Ishizuka; 6. Metaphors of infectious disease in eighteenth-century literature: Complex comparatives in Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) Noelle Dückmann-Gallagher; 7. Only connect: Romantic nerves, pleasure, aesthetics and sexuality Richard C. Sha; Part III. Professional Identity and Culture: 8. Physician-authors, predisciplinarity and predatory writing: John Polidori Michelle Faubert; 9. 'The Compleat, Common Form': Disability and the literature of the British enlightenment Chris Gabbard; 10. Anatomy and interiority: Medicine, politics and identity in the long eighteenth century Corinna Wagner.
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