From the Middle Ages until the 21st Century
E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0520-9
Verlag: V&R unipress
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- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
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1;Title Page;3
2;Copyright;4
3;Table of Contents;5
4;Body;7
5;Acknowledgements;7
6;Rick Honings and Bettina Noak: Introduction;9
6.1;Three research domains;10
6.1.1;1.;11
6.1.2;2.;11
6.1.3;3.;12
6.2;Content of this collection;12
6.2.1;1.;13
6.2.2;2.;14
6.2.3;3.;16
7;Gerard Bouwmeester and Mark G. van Vledder: Medical Actors and Actions in Non-Medical Middle Dutch Literature;19
7.1;Methodology;20
7.2;Results;21
7.3;Discussion;22
7.3.1;1 Medicine and astrology;22
7.3.2;2 Find yourself a proper doctor;23
7.3.3;3 Medicine as labour;24
7.3.4;4 Doctors as moneygrubbers;25
7.3.5;5 The doctor and non-medical ethics;25
7.3.6;6 Playing doctor;28
7.3.7;7 (Ab).use of the doctors reputation;29
7.3.8;8 There is nothing more we can do;30
7.3.9;9 Conclusions and General Discussion;31
8;Hans de Waardt: Melancholy and Fantasy: Johan Wier's Use of a Medical Concept in his Plea for Tolerance;33
8.1;1 Introduction;33
8.2;2 Fantasy and the brain;34
8.3;3 Demonic possession;36
8.4;4 Natural magic and fantasy;39
8.5;5 Medicine, rhetoric, and history writing;40
8.6;6 Demonic possession and other diabolically provoked afflictions;42
9;Olga van Marion: Lovesickness on Stage: Besotted Patients in 17th-Century Medical Handbooks and Plays;47
9.1;1 Introduction;47
9.2;2 Love symptoms;48
9.3;3 Patients on the Dutch stage;49
9.4;4 Symptoms in female characters;53
9.5;5 Lovesickness in a historical character;55
9.6;6 Lovesickness and the means to be cured of it;59
10;Bettina Noak: Pictures of Melancholia in Four Tragedies by Joost van den Vondel;61
10.1;1 Introduction;61
10.2;2 Melancholia in the Early Modern Period;64
10.3;3 Melancholia in Johan van Beverwijck;66
10.4;4 Melancholia under Tyrants – Conscience;68
10.5;5 Religious Mania and the Insanity of the People – Incorporation;71
10.6;6 The Tears of St. Peter – Ego Impoverishment;74
10.7;7 Maria Stuart – Numbness and Breakthrough;77
10.8;8 Conclusion;79
11;Ronny Spaans: Diagnosing the Poetic Inspiration: Medical Criticism of Enthusiasm in the Poetry of Jan Six van Chandelier (1620–1695);81
11.1;1 Introduction;81
11.2;2 `Ecstasy';83
11.3;3 Ecstasy as a danger to physical health;88
11.4;4 The healthy, Christian ecstasy;90
11.5;5 Defectiveness as evidence of humanness;95
12;Helmer Helmers: Illness as Metaphor: The Sick Body Politic and Its Cures;97
12.1;1 Introduction;97
12.2;2 The body in crisis;99
12.3;3 The xenobiotic other;107
12.4;4 The Princely Healer;110
12.5;5 Print as disease and medicine;115
12.6;6 Conclusion;120
13;Rick Honings and Steven Honings: The Poet as Patient: The Curious Case of Willem Bilderdijk: A Retrospective Approach;121
13.1;1 Myth and the melancholy man;121
13.2;2 A Retrospective Approach;125
13.3;3 A Child Prodigy with Headaches;127
13.4;4 An Aggression Issue;130
13.5;5 Lifelong Suffering;132
13.6;6 Old and Confused;135
13.7;7 Conclusion;137
14;Arnold Lubbers: Oddities, or Illness and Health as Topics in the Early 19th-Century Dutch Readers' Digest;139
14.1;1 Reading in book clubs;141
14.2;2 Categories;142
14.3;3 Novels;143
14.4;4 Original language;144
14.5;5 French, German and English;145
14.6;6 Recreational reading;147
14.7;7 Illness and health;148
14.8;8 Animal magnetism;148
14.9;9 Sea baths;151
14.10;10 The cowpox vaccine;153
14.11;11 Miscellaneous work on health and well being;155
14.12;12 Conclusion;158
15;Mary Kemperink: `Am I not Punished Enough?' Confessions of Homosexuals in Medical Studies Around 1900;159
15.1;1 Introduction;159
15.2;2 The medical discourse;160
15.3;3 The confession;163
15.4;4 Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia sexualis (edition 1903);165
15.5;5 Laupts, Tares et poisons (1896);170
15.6;6 Magnus Hirschfeld, `Ursachen und Wesen des Uranismus' (1903);175
15.7;7 Concluding;178
16;Frans-Willem Korsten: Poet-Judge-Physician: Literature as Cicatrix. The Case of Maria Dermoût;181
16.1;1 From scar to cicatrix;181
16.2;2 `I am modern: I am sick';185
16.3;3 Narrative closure and the ability to judge all parties concerned;189
16.4;4 Societal healing – against mastery;192
16.5;5 Conclusion;195
17;Sander Bax: The Legacy of Incomprehensibility: Trauma, Experience and Historiography in Harry Mulisch's Historical Novel The Stone Bridal Bed;199
17.1;1 Introduction;199
17.2;2 Representing (historical and psychological) trauma;202
17.3;3 `Vergiss mich nicht'. Reality in The Stone Bridal Bed;208
17.4;4 Trauma and myth;214
18;Wouter Schrover: Reading Literature through Medical Sociology: The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Thomas Rosenboom's Public Works and a Poem by Neeltje Maria Min;217
18.1;1 Introduction;217
18.2;2 Neeltje Maria Min's untitled poem and Thomas Rosenboom's Public Works;220
18.3;3 Aesculapian power;222
18.4;4 Charismatic power;224
18.5;5 Social power;225
18.6;6 A relation of interdependency;227
18.7;7 Conclusion;228
19;Liesbeth Minnaard and Joost Haan: The Shaking Palsy in the Low Countries: Representations of Parkinsons Disease in Dutch and Flemish Prose;231
19.1;1 Discovering Parkinson's Disease;231
19.2;2 The Fiction of Parkinson's Disease;232
19.3;3 (Not) Accepting Parkinson's Disease;235
19.4;4 Mother, Son and Parkinson;238
19.5;5 Terminal Parkinson's Disease;240
19.6;6 Parkinson in a Soldier;243
19.7;7 Parkinson in a Girl;245
19.8;8 Hallucinating Parkinson's Disease;247
19.9;9 Conclusion;250
20;Stephan Besser: Mixing Repertoires: Cerebral Subjects in Contemporary Dutch Neurological Fiction;253
20.1;1 Introduction;253
20.2;2 Literature and Neuroculture;255
20.3;3 Porta Romana: A Tale of Two Traumas;260
20.4;4 De eerste hond in de ruimte: The Neurology of Techno-Capitalism;264
20.5;5 De maagd Marino: Spiritual Materialism;268
20.6;6 Concluding Remarks;271
21;List of Illustrations;273
21.1;Cover illustration;273
21.2;Olga van Marion, Lovesickness on Stage: Besotted Patients in 17th-Century Medical Handbooks and Plays;273
21.3;Helmer Helmers, Illness as Metaphor: The Sick Body Politic and Its Cures;273
22;Notes on the Contributors;275