Melville’s Unknown Pathology: The Humoral Theory of Disease and Low Grade Lead Poisoning in Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville wrote Bartleby the Scrivener as a literary portrayal of the Humoral theory of disease. Virchow disproved that theory five years after the novella was published, suggesting Melville was humanizing an unknown pathology. A clinical assessment of the text reveals low-grade lead poisoning, which...
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Scholar Commons
2010
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3575 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4749&context=etd |