First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century analyses the close interplay of medicine and literature by paying special attention

Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most

If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to

This title provides an analysis of how literary fiction borrowed narratorial devices from medical texts and vice-versa.