Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century Hardback
Edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Roy Porter
Part of the Routledge Revivals series
Hardback
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First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century analyses the close interplay of medicine and literature by paying special attention to questions of body language and the representation of inner life.
Although today, medicine and literature are widely seen as falling on different sides of the ‘two cultures’ divide, this was not so in the eighteenth century when doctors, scientists, writers, and artists formed a well-integrated educated elite.
Locke, Smollett and Goldsmith were doctors, and physicians such as Erasmus Darwin doubled as poets.
Written by leading historians of medicine and eighteenth-century literary critics, this book uncovers the interconnections between medical and psychological theory and ideas of taste, beauty, and genius.
Its contributors explore the rich cultural milieu of the period and investigate the ways in which medicine itself contributed to informing a gendered discourse of the world.
This book will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and medical historians.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:302 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/10/2022
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- ISBN:9781032350394
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:302 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/10/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032350394
