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S. Leroy (dir.), Medicine and Maladies. Representing Affliction in Nineteenth-Century France

S. Leroy (dir.), Medicine and Maladies. Representing Affliction in Nineteenth-Century France

Publié le par Université de Lausanne (Source : Sophie Leroy)

Medicine and Maladies

Representing Affliction in Nineteenth-Century France

Brill, Series: Faux Titre, Volume: 422

Publication Date: 3 July 2018 — ISBN: 978-90-04-36801-9

Editor: Sophie Leroy

 

 

Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France. Eleven essays by specialists in nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture probe the acts of writing, reading, and viewing corporeal afflictions across the works of medical practitioners, surgeons, pharmacists, novelists, and artists. Tracing scientific discourse in literary narratives and signalling references to fiction in medical texts, the contributions to this interdisciplinary volume invite us to rethink the relationship between the humanities and the medical sciences.

Sophie Leroy is an Early Career Researcher in French Studies. She has worked as a Teaching Fellow in French at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include the cultures and histories of French geographical sciences and imaginations, and nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture.

 

Table of contents :

Introduction

By: Sophie Leroy

Pages: 1–15

Documenting Medical Affliction

‘Voyez les femmes les plus hommasses, ces viragines audacieuses’ : la domestication de la femme masculine dans les traités savants de la première moitié du dix-neuvième siècle

By: Géraldine Crahay

Pages: 19–40

Genre Trouble on the Battlefield: Pharmaceutical, Medical, and Literary Accounts of Napoleonic Campaigns

By: Larry Duffy

Pages: 41–59

Alcoolisme et acédie : le monstre alcoolique dans la pensée clinique du XIXe siècle

By: Julie Müller

Pages: 60–81

Twice Shy: Two Accounts of Timidity in fin-de-siècle France

By: Philippa Lewis

Pages: 82–109

Writing Pathological Experiences

De Karl-des-Monts à Cénéri : lorsque la voix de l’interné entre dans le roman

By: Mélanie Bhend

Pages: 113–131

La Maladie comme métaphore chez Baudelaire

By: Joanna Rajkumar

Pages: 132–153

Emaciation as a Subversive Strategy in Renée Mauperin and an Early Case of ‘Hysterical Anorexia’

By: Susannah Wilson

Pages: 154–170

‘Dictante Dolore’: Writing Pain in Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou

By: Steven Wilson

Pages: 171–189

Reading Body, Mind, and Environment

Against ‘Neuronormativity’: ‘Volcanic’ Temperament in Mirbeau’s L’Abbé Jules

By: Elizabeth Emery

Pages: 193–216

Genius and Degeneracy: Auguste Rodin and the Monument to Balzac*

By: Natasha Ruiz-Gómez

Pages: 217–250

Courbes névrosées, lignes asthmatiques : usages de la métaphore médicale dans la réception de l’Art Nouveau

By: Cyril Barde

Pages: 251–270

 

Readership :

All interested in nineteenth-century France, as well as anyone concerned with the broader themes of science and literature, medicine and visual culture, and the history of medical practice and medical discourse.