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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552778003321

Autore

Kennedy Meegan <1966->

Titolo

Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / / Meegan Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8142-7127-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 261 p. :) : ill. ;

Disciplina

823/.8093561

Soggetti

Fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Medical writing - 19th century - History and criticism

Medicine in literature - 19th century

Literature and medicine - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.