Revising the clinic
Subtitle: vision and representation in Victorian medical narrative and the novel
By: Meegan Kennedy.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780814211168; 9780814292143
Subjects: Literature and medicine -- 19th century; Medicine in literature -- 19th century; Medical writing -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history; title: Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical; title: The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell; title: George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy; title: Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism; title: Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.