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"John Keats was a trained surgeon who studied at Guy's Hospital, London while simultaneously making his way as a poet. This book focuses attention on an important but hitherto neglected Keats manuscript: the notebook he maintained during this period. Reconstructing the lively medical world that played a formative role in Keats' intellectual and imaginative development, it seeks to show the intriguing connections between Keats' medical knowledge and his greatest poetry. It offers new research on Keats' medical career -- including a new edition of his medical Notebook compiled from the manuscript -- and recovers the various ways in which Keats' creativity found expression in his two careers of medicine and poetry, enriching both. Topics explored include the 'hospital poems' Keats wrote at Guy's; the medical milieu of his daily life; his methods of working as revealed by his medical Notebook and other archival sources; and the medical contexts that informed his composition of Endymion and the collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820). John Keats' Medical Notebook: Text, Context and Poems reveals how Keats' visceral knowledge of human life, gained during his medical training at Guy's, transformed him into 'a mighty poet of the human heart'."--

Medicine and literature. --- Physicians as authors --- Literature and medicine --- History --- Keats, John, --- Knowledge and learning. --- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1800-1899 --- England. --- John Keats --- Keats manuscript --- history of medicine --- Romantic poetry --- Guy's Hospital --- Literature and medicine.

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Le personnage du médecin, le rapport du patient avec un corps souffrant suscitent un intérêt privilégié dans le domaine littéraire. Certains auteurs étudiés dans le cadre d’un séminaire de DEA ont eux-mêmes pratiqué la médecine ou ont été témoins d’un père qui la pratiquait. D’autres ont observé sur eux les progrès d’une maladie. Le regard de l’écrivain a pu être marqué par la sympathie ou par une distance entraînant une peinture caricaturale. Des fictions romanesques ou dramatiques, des essais, des écrits autobiographiques gardent la trace d’un tel intérêt. Les études portent sur la littérature française, espagnole, anglaise, allemande. Les auteurs des communications sont en général spécialistes de littérature. Des médecins ont aussi apporté leur collaboration.

Literature and medicine --- Medicine in literature. --- History & Philosophy Of Science --- Literary Theory & Criticism --- médecine --- littérature --- séminaire --- médecin --- corps --- maladie --- caricature --- fiction

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Literature and medicine --- Medicine in Literature --- Literature --- Humanities --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- Literatures --- Literature, Medicine in --- in Literature, Medicine --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine --- Congresses --- Congresses.

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Im Rahmen der derzeit kurrenten Untersuchungen zu den Relationen zwischen Literatur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte macht der Band den Vorschlag, Schnittmengen und Differenzen zwischen medizinischem Wissen und literarischen Texten über die auf beiden Feldern gleichermaßen zentrale Kategorie der Schreibweise zu untersuchen. Die verschiedenen Textsorten der Medizin - vom Traktat über die Dissertation bis zur Fallgeschichte - werden dabei ebenso auf ihre Darstellungsrhetorik und narrative Strukturen hin analysiert wie die auf ein medizinisches Menschenbild gestützten literarischen Genres zwischen Aufklärung und Naturalismus. Die dreizehn Beiträge des Bandes verfolgen die Geschichte dieser Wechselbeziehung von ihrer engen Interaktion in der Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit über den Prozess der funktionalen Ausdifferenzierung von Wissenschaft- und Kunstsystem im 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Wiederannäherung der ,zwei Kulturen' in der Moderne.

Krankheit (Motiv). --- Krankheit . --- Kultur. --- Literatur. --- Literature and medicine --- Literature and medicine. --- Literature, Modern. --- Medicine in Literature. --- Medicine in literature. --- Medizin (Motiv). --- Medizin . --- Medizin. --- Wissensvermittlung. --- History. --- Geschichte 1600-1900. --- Medical care in literature --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine --- Anthroplogy. --- Enlightenment. --- Medicine. --- Naturalism.

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The idea of contagious transmission, either by material particles or by infectious ideas, has played a powerful role in the development of the Western World since antiquity. Yet it acquired quite a precise signature during the process of scientific and cultural differentiation in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This volume explores the significance and cultural functions of contagionism in this period, from notions of infectious homosexuality and the concept of social contagion to the political implications of bacteriological fieldwork. The history of the concept 'microbe' in aesthetic modernism is adressed as well as bacteriological metaphors in American literary historiography. Within this broad framework, contagionism as a literary narrative is approached in more focussed contributions: from its emotional impact in literary modernism to the idea of physical or psychic contagion in authors such as H.G. Wells, Kurt Lasswitz, Gustav Meyrinck, Ernst Weiss, Thomas Mann and Max Frisch. This twofold approach of general topics and individual literary case studies produces a deeper understanding of the symbolic implications of contagionism marking the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure.

Communicable diseases in literature. --- Literature and medicine. --- Contagion (Social psychology) --- Social contagion --- Social psychology --- Memetics --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine --- Contagion (Social psychology). --- Contagionism. --- bacteriology. --- illness narratives. --- literary Modernism. --- medical metaphors.