Novel notions : medical discourse and the mapping of the imagination in eighteenth-century English fiction / Katherine E. Kickel.
- Kickel, Katherine E., 1975-
- Date:
- [2007], ©2007
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New York ; London : Routledge, [2007], ©2007.
Physical description
xii, 185 pages ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index.
Contents
Introduction : discovering the early modern imagination -- Investigating the imagination : the arrival of a Cartesian mediator in science and medicine -- Hearing imagining : rhetorical discordance in Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year -- Imagining a novel's life : the generative power of authorship in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Making sense of novel reading : new curiosity concerning synaesthesia in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy -- Seeing imagining : the resurgence of A new theory of vision in Ann Radcliffe's The mysteries of Udolpho -- Conclusion : an enlightened imagination?
Languages
Subjects
- 17th-18th centuries
- English fictionHistory and criticism
- Imagination in literature
- Senses and sensation in literature
- Mind and body in literature
- MedicineHistory17th century
- MedicineHistory18th century
- Medicine in Literature
- England
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Journal of the plague year.
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. History of Tom Jones.
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.
- Radcliffe, Ann, 1764-1823. Mysteries of Udolpho.
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineCU.41.AA7Open shelves
Permanent link
Identifiers
ISBN
- 041597948X
- 9780415979481