| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 299 pages) |
| Contents |
Table of contents; introduction; part i; mme de staël and the sociology of melancholy; english song, english malady; quacks, social climbers, social critics, and gentlemen physicians; "corruptible bodies"; "with the affection of a parent"; part ii; without swapping her skirt for breeches; a portrait of the artist as a dead man; fanny burney, the vapours, and feminine desire; medical women and hysterical doctors; the sex of spleen and the body of sensibility in early romantic lyric; notorious celebrity; contributors; index |
| Summary |
The eleven essays collected in The English Malady: Enabling and Disabling Fictions adopt perspectives from a variety of disciplines-history, sociology, music, theater, and literary studies-in order to examine manifestations of and writing about hysteria in Europe during the long eighteenth century. The collection demonstrates not only that hysteria was an important cultural metaphor for the Enlightenment-a fact sometimes obscured by scholarly emphasis on the study of hysteria as a nineteenth .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mental illness in literature.
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Illness anxiety disorder in literature
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
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History of ideas.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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English literature
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Illness anxiety disorder in literature
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Literature and society
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Mental illness in literature
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Colburn, Glen
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| ISBN |
1847185649 |
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9781847185648 |
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9781443814850 |
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1443814857 |
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