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The age of hypochondria : interpreting Romantic health and illness /

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"Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of interpretation that mediat...

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Main Author: Grinnell, George C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Hypochondria in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Interpreting Romantic Hypochondria
  • Occupation Hazard: Thomas Beddoes and the "great dark threat" of Romantic Medicine
  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder: The Self-Anatomy of Coleridge's Aesthetics
  • Phantom Memory: Nation and the Absent Body of Idealism in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
  • Multiple Personality: De Quincey's Political Economies of Infirmity
  • Performance Anxiety: Illness and The History of Mary Prince
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.