An exploration of the unity of culture in the Age of the Enlightenment, when 18th-century scientists, writers and artists formed a well-integrated elite.

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

This collection examines different aspects of attitudes towards disease and death in writing of the long eighteenth century. Taking three conditions as examples

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