Spectral Sterility in Bucknill and Tuke’s <i>A Manual of Psychological Medicine</i> and Bulwer Lytton’s <i>A Strange Story</i>
This essay identifies and examines a narrative structure—here called the sterility plot—that is shown to recur in British mid-19th century psychiatric texts and imaginative literature engaging mental science. Treating physicians Bucknill and Tuke’s <i>A Manual of...
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MDPI AG
2019-03-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/1/59 |