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Author:

Caldwell, Janis McLarren.

Title:

Literature and medicine in nineteenth-century Britain : from Mary Shelley to George Eliot / Janis McLarren Caldwell.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

x, 201 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Medicine In Literature
Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Medicine in Literature--Great Britain.
History, 19th Century--Great Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Romantic materialism -- Science and sympathy in Frankenstein -- Natural supernaturalism in Thomas Carlyle and Richard Owen -- Wuthering heights and domestic medicine: the child's body and the book -- Literalization in the novels of Charlotte Bronte -- Charles Darwin and Romantic medicine -- Middlemarch and the medical case.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 46

ISBN:

9780521843348 (hbk.)
0521843340 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55502676

LCCN:

2004052122

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)