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Novel Medicine : Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China / / Andrew Schonebaum



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Autore: Schonebaum Andrew <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Novel Medicine : Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China / / Andrew Schonebaum Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
Disciplina: 895.13/409
Soggetto topico: Medizin
Chinesisch
Literatur
Qing Dynasty (China)
Popular culture
Medicine in literature
Medical literature
Literature and society
Knowledge, Sociology of
Healing in literature
Diseases in literature
Chinese fiction - Ming dynasty
Chinese fiction
Books and reading - Social aspects
HISTORY - Asia - China
LITERARY CRITICISM - Asian - General
Medical Writing - history
Reading - history
Medicine in Literature
Knowledge, Sociology of - History
Popular culture - China - History
Books and reading - Social aspects - China - History
Literature and society - China - History
Medical literature - China - History
Chinese fiction - Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 - History and criticism
Chinese fiction - Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: China
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Beginning to read : some methods and background -- Reading medically : novel illnesses, novel cures -- Vernacular curiosities : medical entertainments and memory -- Diseases of sex : medical and literary views of contagion and retribution -- Diseases of Qing : medical and literary views of depletion -- Contagious texts : inherited maladies and the invention of tuberculosis -- Chinese character glossary.
Sommario/riassunto: "Printed novels, guides to daily life, and practical medical texts were relatively new in sixteenth-century China, but they quickly became popular and influential. Novel Medicine shows how fiction shaped and was shaped by medical discourse and how it popularized practical, vernacular kinds of knowledge. A vibrant exchange among literary, commercial, and medical spheres resulted in a web of texts that produced distinct genealogies of romantic and sexual disease, iconographic lineages of heroic doctors, and medicalized attitudes toward reading. Novel Medicine interrogates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge. Conversely, it demonstrates how practical medical texts employed literary devices and figurative strategies to propagate information. Employing interdisciplinary strategies, it examines the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine as well as their representations of illnesses and healers. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts, as well as sources such as fiction commentary, criticism, medical manuscripts, newspapers, essays, print images, and biographies inform an understanding of the body in early modern China. These readings also provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus on the 'literati' aspects of the novel, showing that these texts were not merely read, but were used by a wide variety of readers and for a range of purposes. This inquiry into the intersections of kinds and sources of knowledge--fictional and real, elite and vernacular--illuminates the history of reading and daily life and challenges us to rethink the nature of Chinese literature"--Provided by publisher.
Titolo autorizzato: Novel medicine  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-295-80632-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465937603321
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