Bodily and narrative forms : the influence of medicine on American literature, 1845-1915 / Cynthia J. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Cynthia J., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literature and medicine--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and medicine.

Literature and medicine--United States--History--20th century.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Human body in literature.

Medicine in literature.

Diseases in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000]

Summary:

During the period of the professionalization of American medicine, many authors were concerned with a concurrent urge to use their work as a means to convey their views about the meaning of the body and the origin and cure of disease. This book studies a range of these authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Charles W. Chesnutt, Margaret Fuller, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and William Dean Howells, among others.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0804737738

OCLC:

42882940