Passion and Pathology in Victorian Fiction

Zusatztext A solid contribution to a developing field and well worth a place on the shelf of a scholar of either social medicine or Victorian fiction. Klappentext In what was once described as 'the century of nerves', a fascination with the mysterious processes governing physical and psychological states was shared by medical and fiction writers alike. This elegant study offers an integrated analysis of how medicine and literature figured the connection between the body and the mind. Alongside detailed examinations of some of the century's most influential neurological and physiological theories, Jane Wood brings readings of both major and relatively neglected fictions - a range which includes work by Charlotte Brontë and George MacDonald, George Eliot and Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy and George Gissing. Stepping into an already lively area of interdisciplinary debate, Passion and Pathology is distinguished by its recognition of the intellectual and imaginative force of both discourses: it extends our understanding of the interaction between science and literature in the wider culture of the period. Zusammenfassung In what was once described as 'the century of nerves', a fascination with the mysterious processes governing physical and psychological states was shared by medical and fiction writers alike. This elegant study offers an integrated analysis of how medicine and literature figured the connection between the body and the mind. Alongside detailed examinations of some of the century's most influential neurological and physiological theories, Jane Wood brings readings of both major and relatively neglected fictions - a range which includes work by Charlotte Brontë and George MacDonald, George Eliot and Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy and George Gissing. Stepping into an already lively area of interdisciplinary debate, Passion and Pathology is distinguished by its recognition of the intellectual and imaginative force of both discourses: it extends our understanding of the interaction between science and literature in the wider culture of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Nature's invalids: the medicalization of womanhood 2: Nervous sensibility and ideals of manhood 3: The 'unmapped country': physiology, consciousness, and the mysteries of the inner life 4: New Woman and neurasthenia: nervous degeneration and the 1890s Conclusion Bibliography Index ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jane Wood, Jane (Lecturer in Victorian Literature Wood
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.07.2001
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenscha
• EAN: 9780198187608
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818760-8
• Anzahl Seiten: 244
• Themen: History of Ideas, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, MEDICAL / History, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Gender studies: women, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form