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Article: Caldwell, Janis McLarren. Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot.(Book review)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- September 22, 2007
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CALDWELL, JANIS McLARREN. Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 201 pp. $ 75.00.
With this monograph, Janis McLarren Caldwell makes an important contribution to literature and medicine studies. Her argument is that in pre-Darwinian Britain there were "influential literary and medical writers" who were committed to "negotiating between two distinctly different ways of knowing," between "personal experience and scientific knowledge of the natural world" (1). Caldwell works gracefully with previous scholarship, agreeing and disagreeing only so that she may more carefully ...