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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796720203321

Titolo

Medicine and maladies [[e-book] ] : representing affliction in nineteenth-century France / / edited by Sophie Leroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Rodopi, , 2018

ISBN

90-04-36801-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Faux titre ; ; v. 422

Altri autori (Persone)

LeroySophie, 1988-

Disciplina

840.9007

Soggetti

French literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Medical literature - France - History - 19th century

Literature and medicine - Congresses

Medicine in literature

Diseases in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the conference, Medicine and Maladies, held at the University of Bristol in September, 2014.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Sophie Leroy -- Documenting Medical Affliction -- ‘Voyez les femmes les plus hommasses, ces viragines audacieuses’ : la domestication de la femme masculine dans les traités savants de la première moitié du dix-neuvième siècle / Géraldine Crahay -- Genre Trouble on the Battlefield: Pharmaceutical, Medical, and Literary Accounts of Napoleonic Campaigns / Larry Duffy -- Alcoolisme et acédie : le monstre alcoolique dans la pensée clinique du XIXe siècle / Julie Müller -- Twice Shy: Two Accounts of Timidity in fin-de-siècle France / Philippa Lewis -- Writing Pathological Experiences -- De Karl-des-Monts à Cénéri : lorsque la voix de l’interné entre dans le roman / Mélanie Bhend -- La Maladie comme métaphore chez Baudelaire / Joanna Rajkumar -- Emaciation as a Subversive Strategy in Renée Mauperin and an Early Case of ‘Hysterical Anorexia’ / Susannah Wilson -- ‘Dictante Dolore’: Writing Pain in Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou / Steven Wilson -- Reading Body, Mind, and Environment -- Against ‘Neuronormativity’: ‘Volcanic’ Temperament in Mirbeau’s L’Abbé Jules / Elizabeth Emery -- Genius and Degeneracy: Auguste Rodin and the Monument to Balzac* /



Natasha Ruiz-Gómez -- Courbes névrosées, lignes asthmatiques : usages de la métaphore médicale dans la réception de l’Art Nouveau / Cyril Barde -- Back Matter -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences.