{"product_id":"bodily-and-narrative-forms-9780804737739","title":"Bodily and Narrative Forms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a series of careful, historicized readings of works by a range of authors, this book relates both the what and the how of representation to specific theories of embodiment emerging during the early period of medical history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Davis' connection of the medical and the literary is exciting, and her knowledge of the texts she investigates and the history of American medicine is impressive. . . .\" -- \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 1. Medical insight: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Elsie Venner; 2. 'Where soul it termed sentiment': sentience and transcendence in the works of Louisa May Alcott, Harriot K. Hunt and Margaret Fuller; 3. Irregular yet balanced: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's and William Dean Howells's woman doctor novels; 4. Form follows function? Charlotte Perkins Gilman, re-presentation, and the literature of estrangement; 5. Black aesthetics: the race novels of Frances E. Watkins Harper, Charles W. Chestnutt and Pauline E. Hopkins; Notes; Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405536895319,"sku":"9780804737739","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804737739.jpg?v=1730492769","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bodily-and-narrative-forms-9780804737739","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}