Grinnell The Age of Hypochondria

Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness
2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-27737-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grinnell, G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

GEORGE C. GRINNELL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada, where he teaches Critical Theory and Romanticism. He has published articles and book chapters on Romantic-era medicalized discourse as well as biometrics and questions of terror in the period.