01773    a2200253   4500001001100000005001700011008004000028020001800068037003600086040000700122041000800129072001300137072001100150072002100161072002100182072001900203100001700222245006600239250000600305260003200311300001000343520115100353999001501504113551091120250317111639.0250312042006GB        5           eng    a9781135510916  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 56.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aD2thema7 aD2bic7 aLIT0000002bisac7 aLIT0041202bisac7 a823.8092bisac1 aJason Tougaw10aStrange CasesbThe Medical Case History and the British Novel  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20060526  a192 p  bStrange Cases is the story of the mutual influence of the case history and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Fictions from Defoe's Roxana to James's The Turn of the Screw and case histories from George Cheyne's to Sigmund Freud's have found narrative impetus in pathology. The writer of a case history faces a rhetorical bind unique to the human sciences: the need to display the acumen of a scientist and the sympathy warranted to the suffering patient. Repeatedly, case historians justify their publicizing of extreme, often morbid or perverse, states of mind and body by appealing to readers to take pity on patients and to recognize the narrative as a vital social document. Diagnosis and sympathy, explicit rhetorical modes in case histories, operate implicitly in novels, shaping reader-identification. While these two narrative forms set out to fulfill an Enlightenment drive to classify and explain, they also raise social and epistemological questions that challenge some of the Enlightenment's most cherished ideals, including faith in reason, the perfectibility of humankind, and the stability of truth.  c7400d7400