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Novel notions : medical discourse and the mapping of the imagination in eighteenth-century English fiction
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Novel notions : medical discourse and the mapping of the imagination in eighteenth-century English fiction / Katherine E. Kickel.
ISBN
041597948X (alk. paper)
9780415979481 (alk. paper)
Published
New York : Routledge, c2007.
Physical Description
xii, 185 p. ; 24 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 17, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index.
Contents
Introduction : discovering the early modern imagination
Investigating the imagination : the arrival of a Cartesian mediator in science and medicine
Hearing imagining : rhetorical discordance in Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year
Imagining a novel's life : the generative power of authorship in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
Making sense of novel reading : new curiosity concerning synaesthesia in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
Seeing imagining : the resurgence of A new theory of vision in Ann Radcliffe's The mysteries of Udolpho
Conclusion : an enlightened imagination?
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