Liberty, Literature, and the Language of Medical Ethics: Understanding Royall Tyler's Algerine Captive; Or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill - Carli Leone
When:
Thursday, November 5, 2015
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Carli Leone
Doctoral Student, English Department
Graduate Affiliate, MH&B Program
Northwestern University
Liberty, Literature, and the Language of Medical Ethics: Understanding Royall Tyler's Algerine Captive; Or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill
In the talk I presented this past spring, I positioned Benjamin Rush as the founding father of the Medical Humanities in the United States. I focused on how and why he incorporated literature into his medical texts and, in turn, how and why we should read his medical texts as literature. This talk will take Rush’s work one step further: I will use his texts on medical ethics towards the literary analysis of Royall Tyler’s novel, The Algerine Captive; Or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (1797). With the help of Rush’s writings, I will re-examine the narrative arc of this seemingly disjointed and frequently overlooked novel.