Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Romantic materialism
- 2 Science and sympathy in Frankenstein
- 3 Natural supernaturalism in Thomas Carlyle and Richard Owen
- 4 Wuthering Heights and domestic medicine: the child's body and the book
- 5 Literalization in the novels of Charlotte Brontë
- 6 Charles Darwin and Romantic medicine
- 7 Middlemarch and the medical case report: the patient's narrative and the physical exam
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Romantic materialism
- 2 Science and sympathy in Frankenstein
- 3 Natural supernaturalism in Thomas Carlyle and Richard Owen
- 4 Wuthering Heights and domestic medicine: the child's body and the book
- 5 Literalization in the novels of Charlotte Brontë
- 6 Charles Darwin and Romantic medicine
- 7 Middlemarch and the medical case report: the patient's narrative and the physical exam
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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- Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century BritainFrom Mary Shelley to George Eliot, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004