{"product_id":"strange-cases-1","title":"Strange Cases","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrange Cases\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of the mutual influence of the case history \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFictions from Defoe's \u003cem\u003eRoxana\u003c\/em\u003e to James's \u003cem\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecase histories from George Cheyne's to Sigmund Freud's have found \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enarrative impetus in pathology. The writer of a case history faces a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erhetorical bind unique to the human sciences: the need to display the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacumen of a scientist and the sympathy warranted to the suffering \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epatient. Repeatedly, case historians justify their publicizing of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eextreme, often morbid or perverse, states of mind and body by \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappealing to readers to take pity on patients and to recognize the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enarrative as a vital social document. Diagnosis and sympathy, explicit \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erhetorical modes in case histories, operate implicitly in novels, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshaping reader-identification. While these two narrative forms set out \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto fulfill an Enlightenment drive to classify and explain, they also \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eraise social and epistemological questions that challenge some of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnlightenment's most cherished ideals, including faith in reason, the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eperfectibility of humankind, and the stability of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262853665112,"sku":"9781138868687","price":72.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138868687.jpg?v=1770300046","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/strange-cases-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}