Passion and Pathology in Victorian Fiction

Passion and Pathology in Victorian Fiction
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By:"Jane Wood"
"Literary Criticism"
Published on 2001 by Oxford University Press on Demand

Offering important new readings of major and less well-known fiction as well as insightful analyses of medical writing, this book extends our understanding of the cultural roles of literature and science.

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Nervous illness and the study of how body and mind connected, were of intense interest to Victorian medical writers and novelists alike. This elegant study offers an integrated analysis of how medicine and literature figured the connection between the body and the mind. Alongside detailed examinations of some of the era's most influential neurological and physiological theories, Jane Wood offers fresh readings of fictions by Charlotte Bront�, George MacDonald, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy and George Gissing.

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