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- catalog abstract ""Nowadays 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 and often collaborated with each other. Physicians like Erasmus Darwin doubled as poets; novelists such as Tobias Smollett were medically qualified. This close interplay of medicine and literature in the Enlightenment showed in literary ideas and expression - debates raged as to whether writing was itself therapeutic, or possibly a disease. And poets and novelists for their part drew heavily on medical language and learning for their models of human nature, of the action of the emotions and the dialectic of body and psyche." "Written by leading historians of medicine and eighteenth-century literary critics, Literature and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century takes up these themes, paying special attention to questions of body language and the representation of the inner life. The chapters include an analysis of dreams and the unconscious; a discussion of the medical theories concerning the prolongation of life, and the way in which novelists picked up on this theme; and the cults of invalidism and hypochondria." "In addition, broader-ranging social historical discussions investigate the relations between the medical colleges and Grub Street, between the emergent professional doctor and the new breed of writers, and the way medicine contributed towards informing a gendered view of the world. A major new exploration of the unity of Enlightenment culture, Literature and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century will be of interest to intellectual historians, literary scholars and medical historians alike."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Literature and medicine during the eighteenth century.".
- catalog contributor b4041150.
- catalog contributor b4041151.
- catalog contributor b4041152.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description ""Nowadays 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 and often collaborated with each other. Physicians like Erasmus Darwin doubled as poets; novelists such as Tobias Smollett were medically qualified. This close interplay of medicine and literature in the Enlightenment showed in literary ideas and expression - debates raged as to whether writing was itself therapeutic, or possibly a disease. And poets and novelists for their part drew heavily on medical language and learning for their models of human nature, of the action of the emotions and the dialectic of body and psyche." "Written by leading historians of medicine and eighteenth-century literary critics, Literature and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century takes up these themes, paying special attention to questions of body language and the representation of the inner life. The chapters include an analysis of dreams and the unconscious; a discussion of the medical theories concerning the prolongation of life, and the way in which novelists picked up on this theme; and the cults of invalidism and hypochondria." "In addition, broader-ranging social historical discussions investigate the relations between the medical colleges and Grub Street, between the emergent professional doctor and the new breed of writers, and the way medicine contributed towards informing a gendered view of the world. A major new exploration of the unity of Enlightenment culture, Literature and Medicine During the Eighteenth Century will be of interest to intellectual historians, literary scholars and medical historians alike."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "Medicine and the Muses / G.S. Rousseau -- William Harvey's "De motu cordis and "The Republick of Literature" / Robert A Erickson -- The anatomy of "Tristram Shandy" / Judith Hawley -- Of logic and lycanthropy / Christopher Fox -- "Mere productions of the brain" / Michael DePorte -- John Wilson's satire of hermetic medicine / Thomas Spaulding Willard -- "A physic against death" / Marie Mulvey Roberts -- Fat is fictional issue / Pat Rogers -- Flights into illness / Gloria Sybil Gross -- The satire on doctors in Hogarth's graphic works / Peter Wagner -- "A club of little villains" / Anita Guerrini -- Fanny Burney's face, Madame D'Arblay's veil / John Wiltshire -- Generation and regeneration / Lynn Salkin Sbiroli.".
- catalog extent "x, 293 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Literature & medicine during the eighteenth century.".
- catalog identifier "0415070821".
- catalog isFormatOf "Literature & medicine during the eighteenth century.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog relation "Literature & medicine during the eighteenth century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "1993 A-810".
- catalog subject "820.9/356 20".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "History of Medicine Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Literature and medicine Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and medicine History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Medicine in Literature Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Medicine in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR448.M42 L58 1993".
- catalog subject "WZ 330 L7765 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Medicine and the Muses / G.S. Rousseau -- William Harvey's "De motu cordis and "The Republick of Literature" / Robert A Erickson -- The anatomy of "Tristram Shandy" / Judith Hawley -- Of logic and lycanthropy / Christopher Fox -- "Mere productions of the brain" / Michael DePorte -- John Wilson's satire of hermetic medicine / Thomas Spaulding Willard -- "A physic against death" / Marie Mulvey Roberts -- Fat is fictional issue / Pat Rogers -- Flights into illness / Gloria Sybil Gross -- The satire on doctors in Hogarth's graphic works / Peter Wagner -- "A club of little villains" / Anita Guerrini -- Fanny Burney's face, Madame D'Arblay's veil / John Wiltshire -- Generation and regeneration / Lynn Salkin Sbiroli.".
- catalog title "Literature & medicine during the eighteenth century / edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Roy Porter.".
- catalog title "Literature and medicine during the eighteenth century.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".