Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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Janis Caldwell investigates the links between the growing scientific materialism of the nineteenth century and the persistence of the Romantic literary imagination. Through closely analyzing literary texts from Frankenstein to Middlemarch, and examining fiction alongside biomedical lectures, textbooks and articles, Caldwell argues that the way Romantic materialism influenced these disciplines compels us to revise conventional accounts of the relationship...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521843340
ISBN13:9780521843348
Release Date:December 2004
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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