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

Author/Contributor(s):	Davis, Cynthia J
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	12/01/2000
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

During the period of the professionalization of American medicine, many authors were concerned with a concurrent urge to use their work as a means to convey their views about the meaning of the body and the origin and cure of disease. This book studies a range of these authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Charles W. Chesnutt, Margaret Fuller, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and William Dean Howells, among others.