Title The age of hypochondria : interpreting Romantic health and illness / George C. Grinnell

Published Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. Contents Introduction: Interpreting romantic hypochondria -- Occupational hazard: 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 Summary "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 mediates a broad spectrum of pressing cultural questions"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index Notes English Print version record Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Illness anxiety disorder in literature Diseases in literature. Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Romanticism -- Great Britain Medicine in literature. Hypochondriasis -- history History, 19th Century Medicine in Literature Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. Medicine in literature Diseases in literature English literature Illness anxiety disorder in literature Literature and medicine Romanticism United Kingdom Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230277373 0230277373

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