Literature and Medicine: Volume 1
Literature and Medicine: Volume 1 Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most…
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Literature and Medicine: Volume 1
Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most diseases had no cure, this collection provides a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped one another. Diseases, fashionable and otherwise, such as Defoe's representation of the plague, feature strongly, as authors argue for the role literary genres play in affecting people's experience of physical and mental illness (and health) across the volume. Covering a period in which both medicine and literature underwent frequent and sometimes radical change, the volume examines the complex mutual construction of these two fields via various perspectives: disability, gender, race, rank, sexuality, the global and colonial, politics, ethics, and the visual.
Along with its sister publication, Literature and