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Each chapter concentrates on texts from the German and Scandinavian tradition: Hjalmar Söderberg’s Doktor Glas (1905), Arthur Schnitzler’s Flucht in die Finsternis (Flight into Darkness written 1917), Franz Kafka’s “Ein Landarzt (“A Country Doctor” written 1916-17), and Amalie Skram’s Professor Hieronimus and På St. Jørgen (published together as Under Observation 1895).","abstract_html":"This project explores literary representations of the doctor-patient relationship around 1900. Research in the English context has focused on the binary construction of Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde to reveal fragmented protagonists and polyphony as a strategy to mark this conflict. I draw on this research to examine medical narratives in German and Scandinavian literary texts. 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