1st Edition
Strange Cases The Medical Case History and the British Novel
By Jason Tougaw
Copyright 2006
254 Pages
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Routledge
254 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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Strange Cases is the story of the mutual influence of the case history
and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Fictions from Defoe's Roxana to James's The Turn of the Screw and
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... Read more
Introduction A Story of Two Genres; Chapter 1 Is Reading a Condition?; Chapter 2 Science and Sensibility: Invasions of Privacy in Breast Cancer Narratives; Chapter 3 Narrating Hypochondriacs: Jane Austen’s Fiction and Three Case Histories; Chapter 4 Agents of Insensibility: Altered States in Victorian Medicine and Fiction; Chapter 5 “The Story Won’t Tell”: Ambiguity and Intersubjectivity in Henry James and Sigmund Freud; Chapter 6 Afterword;
Biography
Jason Tougaw is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY. He is the co-editor of Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community (with Nancy K. Miller). His essays have appeared in JAC, Auto/Biography Studies, and The Scholar and the Feminist.
