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Medicines of the Soul: Reparative Reading and the History of Bibliotherapy
- Author(s):
- jesse_miller (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, Reception Study Society, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Psychiatry, History, Reading
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Bibliotherapy, Reparative Reading, Rhetorical hermeneutics, Samuel McChord Crothers, Therapeutic Culture, Emerson, history of psychiatry, History of reading, Medical humanities
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M61N7XM3B
- Abstract:
- This essay argues that despite its significance within the history of bibliotherapy, Samuel McChord Crothers’s 1916 essay “A Literary Clinic” – in which the term "bibliotherapy" was coined – is a stranger point of origin than proponents have realized, one with implications for conceptualizing reading and its reparative uses more broadly.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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