Literature and Medicine

Herausgeber: Lawlor, Clark; Mangham, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781108420860
• ISBN-10: 1108420869
• Artikelnr.: 60550767

Inhaltsangabe

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.