Arden Hegele (Department of English Lecturer and Comparative Liter

Romantic Autopsy

Literary Form and Medical Reading

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers a moment at the turn of the nineteenth century, when literature and medicine seemed embattled in rivalry, to find the fields collaborating to develop interpretive analogies that saw literary texts as organic bodies and anatomical features as legible texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 164mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780192848345
• ISBN-10: 0192848348
• Artikelnr.: 62162114

Autorenporträt

Arden Hegele is a Medical Humanities Fellow and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Reading Texts, Reading Bodies: Protocols of Diagnosis in Medicine and Literature
1: Hermeneutic Dissection in the Lyric
2: Postmortem, Elegy, and Genius
3: The Madness of Free Indirect Style
4: Unreliable Semiology from Frankenstein to Freud
Coda: Reviving Symptomatic Reading