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Strange Cases
- The Medical Case History and the British Novel
Engelsk
Bogcover for Strange Cases af Jason Tougaw, 9781138868687
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
254
ISBN-13:
9781138868687
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
113886868X
Udg. Dato:
27 feb 2015
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
27 feb 2015
Forfatter(e):

Strange Cases

- The Medical Case History and the British Novel
Engelsk
Paperback 2015
Format:

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Strange Cases is the story of the mutual influence of the case history

and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Fictions from Defoe''s Roxana to James''s The Turn of the Screw and

case histories from George Cheyne''s to Sigmund Freud''s have found

narrative impetus in pathology. The writer of a case history faces a

rhetorical bind unique to the human sciences: the need to display the

acumen of a scientist and the sympathy warranted to the suffering

patient. Repeatedly, case historians justify their publicizing of

extreme, often morbid or perverse, states of mind and body by

appealing to readers to take pity on patients and to recognize the

narrative as a vital social document. Diagnosis and sympathy, explicit

rhetorical modes in case histories, operate implicitly in novels,

shaping reader-identification. While these two narrative forms set out

to fulfill an Enlightenment drive to classify and explain, they also

raise social and epistemological questions that challenge some of the

Enlightenment''s most cherished ideals, including faith in reason, the

perfectibility of humankind, and the stability of truth.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
254
ISBN-13:
9781138868687
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
113886868X
Udg. Dato:
27 feb 2015
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
27 feb 2015
Forfatter(e):
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