Description: ISBN: 9780415977166. Strange Casesis the story of the mutual influence of the case history and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Fictions from Defoe'sRoxanato James'sThe Turn of the Screwand case histories from George Cheyne's to Sigmund Freud's have found narrative impetus in pathology. The writer of a case history faces a rhetorical bind unique to the human sciences: the need to display the acumen of a scientist and the sympathy warranted to the suffering patient. Repeatedly, case historians justify their publicizing of extreme, often morbid or perverse, states of mind and body by appealing to readers to take pity on patients and to recognize the narrative as a vital social document. Diagnosis and sympathy, explicit rhetorical modes in case histories, operate implicitly in novels, shaping reader-identification. While these two narrative forms set out to fulfill an Enlightenment drive to classify and explain, they also raise social and epistemological questions that challenge some of the Enlightenment's most cherished ideals, including faith in reason, the perfectibility of humankind, and the stability of truth. This is an ex-library book in very good condition.
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Subject Area: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Publication Name: Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Item Length: 9 in
Subject: History, Medical case history in British literature
Publication Year: 2006
Series: Routledge Series
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1 in
Author: Jason Daniel Tougaw
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Personalized: No
Level: Advanced
Features: Ex-Library
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1
Item Weight: 1 lbs
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 244
