Throughout Passion and Pathology, Wood provides a balanced feminist perspective on the relationship between gender and nineteenth-century medicine.

Victorian Studies

Passion and Pathology adds new medical and literary details to our understanding of nervous illness and narrative in the nineteenth century.

Victorian Studies

Fascinating information and analysis.

The Review of English Studies

Se alle

A solid contribution to a developing field and well worth a place on the shelf of a scholar of either social medicine or Victorian fiction.

Social History of Medicine

In what was once described as 'the century of nerves', a fascination with the mysterious processes governing physical and psychological states was shared by medical and fiction writers alike. This elegant study offers an integrated analysis of how medicine and literature figured the connection between the body and the mind. Alongside detailed examinations of some of the century's most influential neurological and physiological theories, Jane Wood brings readings of both major and relatively neglected fictions - a range which includes work by Charlotte Brontë and George MacDonald, George Eliot and Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy and George Gissing. Stepping into an already lively area of interdisciplinary debate, Passion and Pathology is distinguished by its recognition of the intellectual and imaginative force of both discourses: it extends our understanding of the interaction between science and literature in the wider culture of the period.
Les mer
Nervous illness, and the study of how body and mind connected, were of intense interest to Victorian medical writers and novelists alike. Offering important new readings of major and less well-known fiction as well as insightful analyses of medical writing, this book extends our understanding of the cultural roles of literature and science.
Les mer
Introduction ; 1. Nature's invalids: the medicalization of womanhood ; 2. Nervous sensibility and ideals of manhood ; 3. The 'unmapped country': physiology, consciousness, and the mysteries of the inner life ; 4. New Woman and neurasthenia: nervous degeneration and the 1890s ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index
Les mer
An exceptional study of the Victorians' understanding of nervous illness, explored through analysis of both fiction and medical writing. Makes a major contribution to a particularly lively area of current debate. Written with subtlety and elegance - deserves a prominent place in Victorian literary criticism.
Les mer
An exceptional study of the Victorians' understanding of nervous illness, explored through analysis of both fiction and medical writing. Makes a major contribution to a particularly lively area of current debate. Written with subtlety and elegance - deserves a prominent place in Victorian literary criticism.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199247134
Publisert
2001
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
307 gr
Høyde
217 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

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