Victorian
Literature and Medicine: Twenty-Five Years Later
By , Temple University (July 2008)
Section: Victorian
Subjects: Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Victorian Literature, Culture, Medicine.
Key Topics: historicism, victorianism, intertextuality, literary criticism , rhetoric.
Abstract
An analysis of ten recent studies in Victorian literature and medicine examines the changes in the interdisciplinary field since G. S. Rousseau published an influential article on the topic in 1981.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00563.x
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