Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain : from Mary Shelley to George Eliot / Janis McLarren Caldwell.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 201 p. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Romantic materialism 2. Science and sympathy in Frankenstein 3. Natural supernaturalism in Thomas Carlyle and Richard Owen 4. Wuthering heights and domestic medicine: the child's body and the book 5. Literalization in the novels of Charlotte Brontë 6. Charles Darwin and Romantic medicine 7. Middlemarch and the medical case report: the patient's narrative and the physical exam. Notes. Bibliography. Index
