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Written by leading historians of medicine and eighteenth-century literary critics, this book uncovers the interconnections between medical and psychological theory and ideas of taste, beauty, and genius by paying special attention to questions of body language and the representation of inner life.
List of contents
List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction 1. Medicine and the Muses: an approach to literature and medicine
2. William Harvey's
De motu cordis and the 'Republick of Literature'
3. The Anatomy of
Tristram Shandy 4. Of logic and lycanthropy: Gulliver and the faculties of the mind
5. 'Mere productions of the brain': interpreting dreams in Swift
6. John Wilson's satire of hermetic medicine
7. 'A physic against death': eternal life and the Enlightenment - gender and gerontology
8. Fat is fictional issue: the novel and the rise of weight-watching
9. Flights into illness: some characters in Jane Austen
10. The Satire on doctors in Hogarth's graphic works
11. 'A club of little villains': rhetoric, professional identity and medical pamphlet wars
12. Fanny Burney's face, Madame D' Arblay's veil
13. Generation and regeneration: reflections on the biological and ideological role of women in France (1786-96)
Name index Subject index
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Edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Roy Porter
Summary
Written by leading historians of medicine and eighteenth-century literary critics, this book uncovers the interconnections between medical and psychological theory and ideas of taste, beauty, and genius by paying special attention to questions of body language and the representation of inner life.
