Literature and medicine in nineteenth century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot

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 b...

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Tác giả chính:	Caldwell, Janis McLarren
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Được phát hành:	Cambridge University 2013
Những chủ đề:	English literature Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine
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Literature and medicine in nineteenth century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot

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