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Mind and body in literature

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16 works

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    Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century / Anne Stiles.

    Stiles, Anne, 1975- | Date: 2012
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    Novel notions : medical discourse and the mapping of the imagination in eighteenth-century English fiction / Katherine E. Kickel.

    Kickel, Katherine E., 1975- | Date: [2007], ©2007
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    Melancholy, medicine and religion in early modern England : reading The anatomy of melancholy / Mary Ann Lund.

    Lund, Mary Ann, 1978- | Date: 2010
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    Gothic bodies : the politics of pain in romantic fiction / Steven Bruhm.

    Bruhm, Steven. | Date: [1994], ©1994
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    Affecting fictions : mind, body, and emotion in American literary realism / Jane F. Thrailkill.

    Thrailkill, Jane F., 1963- | Date: 2007
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Medicine in Literature
History, 19th Century
Human body in literature
Emotions in literature
English literature - History and criticism
United Kingdom
Literature and medicine
English fiction - History and criticism
Literature and science
Romanticism

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