Medicine and narration in the eighteenth century
By: edited by Sophie Vasset
Series: SVEC -- 2013:04; SVEC -- 2013:04.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780729410656
Subjects: Fiction; History and criticism; Medical literature; History; Literature and medicine; Medicine in literature; Communication in medicine; Narration (Rhetoric); Medicine in Literature
Description: This title provides an analysis of how literary fiction borrowed narratorial devices from medical texts and vice-versa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Questions of narration in eighteenth-century medicine and literature / Sophie Vasset; title: From medical case to narrative fiction : Diderot's La religieuse / Alexandre Wenger; title: How to relate a medical case : the controversy about John Ranby's Narrative of the last illness of the Earl of Oxford (1745) / Sophie Vasset; title: Writing to fellow physicians : literary genres and medical questions in Louis Odier's (1748-1817) correspondence / Philip Rieder; title: "Not the meanest part of my works and experience" : Dr. George Cheyne's correspondence with Samuel Richardson / David Shuttleton; title: Clementina's disease and polyphonic narration in Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison (1754) / Hélène Cachez and Sophie Vasset; title: Melancholy vaporised : self-narration and counter-diagnosis in Rousseau's work / Rudy Le Menthéour; title: Textually transmitted diseases : smallpox innoculation in French literary and medical works / Catriona Seth; title: Smollett and the novel of irritability / Gavin Budge; title: The healing power of words : medicine and literature in Bernard Mandeville's Treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick diseases / Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon; title: Oculist narratives in late-eighteenth-century German : from cataract surgery to political conspiracy in Jean Paul's Hesperus / Helge Jordheim; title: "Le poète raconte et ne discute pas" : poetic and medical codes in Jean-François Sacombe's obstetric epic, La Luciniade (1792-1815) / Hugues Marchal.