Literature and Medicine: Volume 1 The Eighteenth Century

The first in a two-part volume offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the eighteenth century. Leading scholars in the field provide a valuable overview of how these two diverse disciplines influenced and shaped each other throughout a period of radical change.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Northumbria University. He is Principle Investigator for the Leverhulme Trust Major Projects Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832, and Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832. His monographs include Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease (2006) and From Melancholia to Prozac: a History of Depression (2012).Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. He is the author of Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007), Dickens's Forensic Realism (2016) and The Science of Starving (2020). He has edited the Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013), The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011) and The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018).

Zusammenfassung

The first in a two-part volume offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the eighteenth century. Leading scholars in the field provide a valuable overview of how these two diverse disciplines influenced and shaped each other throughout a period of radical change.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Lawlor Clark (Herausgeber), Andrew Mangham (Herausgeber), Clark Lawlor (Herausgeber)
• Autoren: Clark (Northumbria University Lawlor
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2021
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenscha; Schule und Lernen > Schulbücher Allgemeinbildende Schulen; Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik
• EAN: 9781108420860
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42086-0
• Anzahl Seiten: 280
• Themen: History of Medicine; 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799; Literary studies: general; C 1700 To C 1800