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From Dissection to Connection: The Preservative Power of the Empathetic Gaze in Romantic Literature

Fraley, Brandy B.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1272987977

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2010, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
“From Dissection to Connection: The Preservative Power of the Empathetic Gaze in Romantic Literature” examines the inherent conflicts between varying medical gazes at abnormal bodies during the Romantic period, and examines, specifically, how the empathetic gaze—a way of medical looking based on intuition, emotion, instinct and experience—evolves and works within Romantic texts to preserve abnormal bodies and maintain their disruptive energy. Through revisionary close readings of several texts including Mary Seacole’s The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole In Many Lands, Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda, and Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater, the dissertation differentiates the empathetic gaze from its colder clinical counterpart, explores its effect on various types of abnormal bodies, and supplements critical readings that attempt to reconcile Romantic texts with the medical science of the Romantic period.
Nicole Reynolds, PhD (Committee Chair)
Linda Zionkowski, PhD (Committee Member)
Joe McLaughlin, PhD (Committee Member)
Michele Clouse, PhD (Committee Member)
199 p.
English literature
empathetic gaze; Romantic medicine; clinical gaze; abnormal bodies

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  • Fraley, B. B. (2010). From Dissection to Connection: The Preservative Power of the Empathetic Gaze in Romantic Literature [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1272987977

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Fraley, Brandy. From Dissection to Connection: The Preservative Power of the Empathetic Gaze in Romantic Literature. 2010. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1272987977.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Fraley, Brandy. "From Dissection to Connection: The Preservative Power of the Empathetic Gaze in Romantic Literature." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1272987977

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