Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915 by Cynthia J. Davis

Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915

Cynthia J. Davis

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During the period of the professionalization of American medicine, many authors were concerned with a concurrent tendency to define identity in biological terms. Most of them doctors or patients themselves, they used literature polemically to conv...

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