Medicine and maladies : representing affliction in nineteenth-century France / edited by Sophie Leroy.

Medicine and maladies : representing affliction in nineteenth-century France /

Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing co...

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Corporate Author: Medicine and Maladies (Conference) University of Bristol)
Other Authors: Leroy, Sophie, 1988- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, 2018.
Series:Faux titre ; no. 422.
Subjects:
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism > Congresses.
Medical literature > France > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Literature and medicine > Congresses.
Medicine in literature > Congresses.
Diseases in literature > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Sophie Leroy
  • Documenting medical affliction. 'Voyez les femmes les plus hommasses, ces viragines audacieuses': la domestication de la femme masculine dans les traites savants de la premiere moitie du dix-neuvieme siecle /
  • Geraldine Crahay
  • Genre trouble on the battlefield: pharmaceutical, medical, and literary accounts of Napoleonic campaigns / Larry Duffy
  • Alcoolisme et acedie : le monstre alcoolique dans la pensee clinique du XIXe siecle / Julie Muller
  • Twice shy: two accounts of timidity in fin-de-siecle France / Philippa Lewis
  • Writing pathological experiences. de karl-des-monts a ceneri : lorsque la voix de l'interne entre dans le roman / Melanie Bhend
  • La Maladie comme metaphore chez Baudelaire / Joanna Rajkumar
  • Emaciation as a subversive strategy in Renee Mauperin and an early case of 'hysterical anorexia' / Susannah Wilson
  • 'Dictante Dolore': writing pain in Alphonse Daudet's La Doulou / Steven Wilson
  • Reading body, mind, and environment. Against 'neuronormativity': 'volcanic' temperament in Mirbeau's L'Abbe Jules / Elizabeth Emery
  • Genius and degeneracy: Auguste Rodin and the monument to Balzac / Natasha Ruiz-Gomez
  • Courbes nevrosees, lignes asthmatiques: usages de la metaphore medicale dans la reception de l'Art Nouveau / Cyril Barde.

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