Overview
- Brings contributors from across a diverse range of disciplines into conversation with each other
- Bridges the medicine/literature divide through a varied, intellectually stimulating selection of essays from top scholars
- Discusses topics as diverse as pedagogy, the mind-body connection, alterity, and medical practice.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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History and Pedagogy
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Body and Mind
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Physical and Cultural Alterity
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Stephanie M. Hilger is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA where she also holds appointments in French, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the European Union Center. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century British, French, and German literature, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to literature. She is the author of Women Write Back: Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805 (2009) and Gender and Genre: German Women Write the French Revolution (2014). She is also the co-editor of The Early History of Embodied Cognition from 1740 to 1920: The “Lebenskraft” Debate and Radical Reality in German Science, Music, and Literature (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies
Editors: Stephanie M. Hilger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51988-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51987-0Published: 20 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51988-7Published: 11 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 415
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary History, History of Medicine