The age of hypochondria: interpreting romantic health and illness
Grinnell, George C.
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 oneillness 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. INDICE: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23145-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 14/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés