Medicine and Maladies (Faux Titre) (English and French Edition)

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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. Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Documenting Medical Affliction Chapter 1 ‘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 Chapter 2 Genre Trouble on the Battlefield: Pharmaceutical, Medical, and Literary Accounts of Napoleonic Campaigns Chapter 3 Alcoolisme et acédie : le monstre alcoolique dans la pensée clinique du XIXe siècle Chapter 4 Twice Shy: Two Accounts of Timidity in fin-de-siècle France Part 2 Writing Pathological Experiences Chapter 5 De Karl-des-Monts à Cénéri : lorsque la voix de l’interné entre dans le roman Chapter 6 La Maladie comme métaphore chez Baudelaire Chapter 7 Emaciation as a Subversive Strategy in Renée Mauperin and an Early Case of ‘Hysterical Anorexia’ Chapter 8 ‘Dictante Dolore’: Writing Pain in Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou Part 3 Reading Body, Mind, and Environment Chapter 9 Against ‘Neuronormativity’: ‘Volcanic’ Temperament in Mirbeau’s L’Abbé Jules Chapter 10 Genius and Degeneracy: Auguste Rodin and the Monument to Balzac Chapter 11 Courbes névrosées, lignes asthmatiques : usages de la métaphore médicale dans la réception de l’Art Nouveau Index