Revising the clinic: vision and representation in Victorian medical narrative and the novel

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Subjects (LCSH):
Literature and medicine -- 19th centuryMedicine in literature -- 19th century
Medical writing -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Issue Date:
2010Metadata
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The Ohio State University PressDescription:
(print) x, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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
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Item embargoed for five years
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BookISBN:
9780814211168 (print)081421116X (print)
Other Identifiers:
OCLC #426389694 (print)LCCN 2009025707 (print)
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