Jason Tougaw

Strange Cases

The Medical Case History and the British Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781138868687
• ISBN-10: 113886868X
• Artikelnr.: 42835214

Autorenporträt

Jason Tougaw is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY. He is the co-editor of Extremities:Trauma, Testimony, and Community (with Nancy K. Miller). His essays have appeared in JAC, Auto/Biography Studies, and The Scholar and the Feminist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction A Story of Two Genres
Chapter 1 Is Reading a Condition?
Chapter 2 Science and Sensibility: Invasions of Privacy in Breast Cancer Narratives
Chapter 3 Narrating Hypochondriacs: Jane Austen's Fiction and Three Case Histories
Chapter 4 Agents of Insensibility: Altered States in Victorian Medicine and Fiction
Chapter 5 "The Story Won't Tell": Ambiguity and Intersubjectivity in Henry James and Sigmund Freud
Chapter 6 Afterword