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Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the
Eighteenth Century analyses the close interplay of medicine and
literature by paying special attention to questions of body
language and the representation of inner life. Although today,
medicine and literature are widely seen as falling on different
sides of the 'two cultures' divide, this was not so in the
eighteenth century when doctors, scientists, writers, and artists
formed a well-integrated educated elite. Locke, Smollett and
Goldsmith were doctors, and physicians such as Erasmus Darwin
doubled as poets. 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. Its contributors explore the rich
cultural milieu of the period and investigate the ways in which
medicine itself contributed to informing a gendered discourse of
the world. This book will be of interest to historians, literary
scholars and medical historians.
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