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

by Cynthia J. Davis

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804737738
• ISBN13: 9780804737739
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"