Reviews
"Offers ground-breaking readings of major authors and serves as an exemplary study of how those authors represent the mind and imagination in physiological terms. His erudition in medical history, his close reading of literary texts, and his flashes of critical insight make the book original, fascinating, and convincing." ; "Admirably displays how cultural history, medical theory, and literary arts converge in the career of major writers of their respective cultures."
--English Literature in Transition
"Gordon forces the reader of Plath's poetry, as well as the other authors here, to reinterpret familiar images and themes in a medical manner."
"Should be read by medical historians as well as literary ones because it is a fine demonstration of medicine's fundamental importance in some of Anglo-American culture's greatest imaginative products."
--Bull. Hist. Med.