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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Book 46
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Janis Caldwell investigates the links between the growing scientific materialism of the nineteenth century and the persistence of the Romantic literary imagination. Through closely analyzing literary texts from Frankenstein to Middlemarch, and examining fiction alongside biomedical lectures,... read more
Characters/People edit
- Charles Darwin: Add a description of this character.
- Lockwood
- Dorothea
- Richard Owen
- Cathy
- M. Paul
- George Eliot
- Lydgate
- Carlyle
- Walton
- Teufelsdrockh
- Emily
- Lucy
- Lawrence
- Heathcliff
- Catherine
- Malthus
- Romantic
- Paxton
- Brontë
- Ricoeur
- Huxley
- Mary Shelley
- Frankenstein
- Jane Eyre
- Victor
- Abernethy
- Hareton
- Paley
- Rousseau
- Coleridge
- Graham
- Jacob
- Levine
- Buchan
- Donne
- Whewell
- Joseph
- Rothfield
- Gregory
- Erasmus Darwin
- Homans
- Blake
- Linton
- Kenneth
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
This book is about a remarkable episode in the history of literature and of medicine, in which several influential literary and medical writers were allied in one project, that of negotiating between two distinctly different ways of knowing - between, that is, personal experience and scientific knowledge of the natural world.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 46 of 78 in Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Janis McLarren Caldwell (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country: Great Britain & USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0521843340
Page Count: 211
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country: Great Britain & USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0521843340
Page Count: 211
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PR868.M42 C35 2004
- Dewey: 820.93561
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