1st Edition
Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century
List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction 1. Medicine and the Muses: an approach to literature and medicine G.S. Rousseau 2. William Harvey’s De motu cordis and the ‘Republick of Literature’ Robert A. Erickson 3. The Anatomy of Tristram Shandy Judith Hawley 4. Of logic and lycanthropy: Gulliver and the faculties of the mind Christopher Fox 5. ‘Mere productions of the brain’: interpreting dreams in Swift Michael DePorte 6. John Wilson’s satire of hermetic medicine Thomas Spaulding Willard 7. ‘A physic against death’: eternal life and the Enlightenment – gender and gerontology Marie Mulvey Roberts 8. Fat is fictional issue: the novel and the rise of weight-watching Pat Rogers 9. Flights into illness: some characters in Jane Austen Gloria Sybil Gross 10. The Satire on doctors in Hogarth’s graphic works Peter Wagner 11. ‘A club of little villains’: rhetoric, professional identity and medical pamphlet wars Anita Guerrini 12. Fanny Burney’s face, Madame D’ Arblay’s veil John Wiltshire 13. Generation and regeneration: reflections on the biological and ideological role of women in France (1786-96) Lynn Salkin Sbiroli Name index Subject index
Biography
Edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Roy Porter
