Book Reviews in novels to reflect sociological and historical happenings and influences, and to examine it closely, is not only to discover this but also to scrutinize fundamental factors, such as the writers themselves and the role of the novel in general.Both organic and psychological illness are encountered and the four scholarly essays discussing them are of excellent quality.It is, however, difficult to get at the discussions of the diseases themselves as the 'Index' does not help.On occasions the author indicates his lack of familiarity with medical events and terminology, and there is also rather too much reliance placed on psycho-analysis and Freudian theory.Nevertheless, as an exploratory work it can be praised, and it will now be necessary for its author and, or, others to extend the national scene to include the basic metaphors used by other modem European prose writers when representing types of
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McNeill et al. (1976) studied this question.