Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Janis McLarren Caldwell

页数:220

出版时间:2008-06-19

价格:USD 43.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521066679

具体描述

Although we have come to regard 'clinical' and 'romantic' as oppositional terms, romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configurations. In the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century, writers and doctors developed an interpretive method that negotiated between literary and scientific knowledge of the natural world. Literary writers produced potent myths that juxtaposed the natural and the supernatural, often disturbing the conventional dualist hierarchy of spirit over flesh. Clinicians developed the two-part history and physical examination, weighing the patient's narrative against the evidence of the body. Examining fiction by Mary Shelley, Carlyle, the Brontes and George Eliot, alongside biomedical lectures, textbooks and articles, Janis McLarren Caldwell demonstrates the similar ways of reading employed by nineteenth-century doctors and imaginative writers and reveals the complexities and creative exchanges of the relationship between literature and medicine.

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Exploration of spiritual and corporeal relationship through reference to or connotation of intersection between theology and medicine in Romantic literary pieces.

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