Enlightenment and Pathology
Subtitle: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-Century France
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 17, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780801856778
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Medicine; c 1700 to c 1800; Literature And Science; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Senses and sensation in literature; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; French Literature; 18th century; History and criticism; Sentimentalism in literature
First sentence: To retrace the process by which sensibility became a major conceptual metaphor in eighteenth-century France, I will begin by considering the new physiological model of the body that developed in the 1740s and 1750s.