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Revising the clinic [electronic resource] : vision and representation in Victorian medical narrative and the novel / Meegan Kennedy.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author:	Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:	Literature and medicine > 19th century. Medicine in literature > 19th century. Medical writing > 19th century > History and criticism. Fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Fiction. Literature and medicine. Medical writing. Medicine in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history
Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical
The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell
George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy
Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism
Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.