Description
Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the eighteenth century.
About the Author
Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at Northumbria University. He is Principle Investigator for the Leverhulme Trust Major Projects Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832, and Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832. His monographs include Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease (2006) and From Melancholia to Prozac: a History of Depression (2012). Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. He is the author of Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007), Dickens's Forensic Realism (2016) and The Science of Starving (2020). He has edited the Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013), The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011) and The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018).
Reviews
'... a major critical overview of the interaction of literature and medicine across an extended period of time in which new challenges to public health received their most widespread coverage and interpretation in popular literature ... Recommended.' D. Pesta, Choice Connect
Book Information
ISBN 9781108420860
Author Clark Lawlor
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 560g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 21mm