Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel

by Jason Tougaw

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Strange Cases is the story of the mutual influence of the case history

and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Fictions from Defoe's Roxana to James's The Turn of the Screw and

case histories from George Cheyne's to Sigmund Freud's have found

narrative impetus in pathology. The writer of a case history faces a

rhetorical bind unique to the human sciences: the need to display the

acumen...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:113886868X

ISBN13:9781138868687

Release Date:June 2015

Publisher:Routledge

Length:254 Pages

Weight:0.76 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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