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“Vretto’s purpose in this thoroughly researched and extensively documented study is ‘to analyze the complex interaction between 19th-Century medical theory and narrative discourse’. . . . Vretto’s reading includes a wide range of materials (particularly nonliterary texts). An impressive work of both scholarship and criticism.”—Choice

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“Vretto’s purpose in this thoroughly researched and extensively documented study is ‘to analyze the complex interaction between 19th-Century medical theory and narrative discourse’. . . . Vretto’s reading includes a wide range of materials (particularly nonliterary texts). An impressive work of both scholarship and criticism.”—Choice

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780804725330
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publication date: 5/1/1995
  • Edition description: 1
  • Pages: 264
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
1 Body Language and the Poetics of Illness 19
Emotional Ventriloquism 30
Eloquent Deceptions and Somatic Truth 35
Maternal Nursing and the Dangers of Affect 39
2 From Neurosis to Narrative: The Private Life of the Nerves 48
Nervous Spirituality 50
Psychic Spaces: Villette, Daniel Deronda 57
Visionary Sensibility: Daniel Deronda 69
Incurable Narratives 75
3 Neuromimesis and the Medical Gaze 81
Imitation, Contagion, and the Crowd 83
Sympathy, Gender, and Medical Vision 91
Suggestible Readers 96
Affective Hermeneutics: Uncle Tom's Cabin 99
Hypnotic Spectatorship: Trilby 102
Visual Transgression: Middlemarch 105
Interpretive Androgyny: Wings of the Dove 111
4 The National Health: Defining and Defending Bodily Boundaries 124
The Ideology of Exercise 127
Domestic Fitness: The Egoist 133
The Anatomy of Empire 142
Physical Immunity and Racial Destiny: Stoker and Haggard 154
Conclusion 177
Notes 187
Bibliography 221
Index 241

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