| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction. Literature and Medicine in the Long Eighteenth Century / Clark Lawlor -- 'Mere flesh and blood' : poetry, genre, and medicine / Clark Lawlor -- Jane Barker, medical discourse, and the origins of the novel / Heather Meek -- Imaginary invalids : the symptoms and the stage from the Restoration to the Romantics / Roberta Barker -- Mental illness : locking and unlocking the stereotypes / Allan Ingram -- From hypo to bile : the rise and progress of biliousness in the long eighteenth century / Hisao Ishizuka -- Metaphors of infectious disease in eighteenth-century literature : complex comparatives in Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year (1722) / Noelle Dückmann Gallagher -- Only connect : romantic nerves, pleasure, aesthetics, and sexuality / Richard C. Sha -- Physician-authors, predisciplinarity, and predatory writing : John Polidori / Michelle Faubert -- 'The compleat common form' : disability and the literature of the British enlightenment / D. Christopher Gabbard -- Anatomy and interiority : medicine, politics, and identity in the long eighteenth century / Corinna Wagner |
| Summary |
"Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most diseases had no cure, this collection provides a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped one another. Covering a period in which both medicine and literature underwent frequent and sometimes radical change, the volume examines the complex mutual construction of these two fields via various perspectives: disability, gender, race, rank, sexuality, the global and colonial, politics, ethics, and the visual. Diseases, fashionable and otherwise, such as Defoe's representation of the plague, feature strongly, as authors argue for the role literary genres play in affecting people's experience of physical and mental illness (and health) across the volume. Along with its sister publication, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century, this volume offers a major critical overview of the study of literature and medicine."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2021) |
| Subject |
Literature and medicine -- History -- 18th century
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Medicine in literature -- 18th century
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Medicine in literature
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English literature
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Literature and medicine
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lawlor, Clark, 1965- editor.
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Mangham, Andrew, 1979- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108355476 |
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1108355471 |
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