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1 online resource |
Series |
Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; volume 422 |
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Faux titre ; no. 422.
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Contents |
Introduction / Sophie Leroy -- Documenting medical affliction. 'Voyez les femmes les plus hommasses, ces viragines audacieuses': la domestication de la femme masculine dans les traites savants de la premiere moitie du dix-neuvieme siecle / -- Geraldine Crahay -- Genre trouble on the battlefield: pharmaceutical, medical, and literary accounts of Napoleonic campaigns / Larry Duffy -- Alcoolisme et acedie : le monstre alcoolique dans la pensee clinique du XIXe siecle / Julie Muller -- Twice shy: two accounts of timidity in fin-de-siecle France / Philippa Lewis -- Writing pathological experiences. de karl-des-monts a ceneri : lorsque la voix de l'interne entre dans le roman / Melanie Bhend -- La Maladie comme metaphore chez Baudelaire / Joanna Rajkumar -- Emaciation as a subversive strategy in Renee Mauperin and an early case of 'hysterical anorexia' / Susannah Wilson -- 'Dictante Dolore': writing pain in Alphonse Daudet's La Doulou / Steven Wilson -- Reading body, mind, and environment. Against 'neuronormativity': 'volcanic' temperament in Mirbeau's L'Abbe Jules / Elizabeth Emery -- Genius and degeneracy: Auguste Rodin and the monument to Balzac / Natasha Ruiz-Gomez -- Courbes nevrosees, lignes asthmatiques: usages de la metaphore medicale dans la reception de l'Art Nouveau / Cyril Barde |
Summary |
Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences |
Notes |
Based on the conference, Medicine and Maladies, held at the University of Bristol in September, 2014 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English and French |
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Subject |
French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Medical literature -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
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Literature and medicine -- Congresses
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Medicine in literature -- Congresses
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Diseases in literature -- Congresses
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Literature and medicine
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Diseases in literature
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French literature
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Medical literature
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Medicine in literature
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France
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Leroy, Sophie, 1988- editor.
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LC no. |
2018024403 |
ISBN |
9789004368019 |
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9004368019 |
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