The Cure of the Passions and the Origins of the English Novel
Geoffrey (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Sill
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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This 2001 book examines the role of the passions in the rise of the English novel. Sill examines medical, religious and literary efforts to anatomize the passions and shows that the figure of the 'physician of the mind' features prominently in novels by Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Burney and Edgeworth.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521027908
- ISBN-10
- 052102790X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2006
- Publication date
- 2006-11-02
- Pages
- 272
- Dimensions
- 228x151x20
- Weight
- 410