Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History

2003. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4039-1292-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 329 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these meanings as doctors, yet it is only recently that literary traditions have been recognized as a rich archive for these interpretations. These essays focus on the methodological hurdles encountered in retrieving these interpretations, called 'framing' by the authors. Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History aims to explain what has been said about these interpretations and to compare their value.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rousseau, G.

Gill, M.

Haycock, D.

Herwig, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Contributors Introduction Framing the Frame: the Imagining and Framing of Disease in Cultural History; G.S.Rousseau PART I: FRAMING AND IMAGINING DISEASE Within the Frame: Self-Starvation and the Making of Culture; C.Albano Imagining Smallpox in the Long Eighteenth Century: Inscription and Interpretation; D.E.Shuttleton "This Pestilence Which Walketh in Darkness": New York City Reads the 1832 Cholera Epidemic; J.Weiss Mapping Colonial Disease: Victorian Medical Cartography in British India; P.K.Gilbert Framing the "Magic Mountain Malady": The Reception of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain in the Medical Community, 1924-2000; M.Herwig PART II: FRAMING AND IMAGINING MADNESS "A Little Bit Mad/Almost Mad/Not Quite Mad": Eccentricity and the Framing of Madness in Nineteenth-Century French Culture; M.Gill Retrospective Medicine, Hypnosis, Hysteria and French Literature, 1875-1895; M.R.Finn Shifting Conceptions of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Therapies in Hungary, 1858-1908; E.Lafferton PART III: THE PATIENT'S NARRATIVES AND IMAGES Name Disease or Voice Sickness? The Patient's Contribution; P.Rieder Framing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Gut: Genius, Digestion, Hypochondria; G.S.Rousseau & D.B.Haycock PART IV: TOWARDS A POETICS AND METAPHORICS OF DISEASE Paradoxical Diseases in the Late Renaissance: The Cases of Syphilis and Plague; A.Steczowicz Proved on the Pulses: Heart Disease in Victorian Culture; K.Blair Tropenkoller: The Interdiscursive Poetics of a German Colonial Syndrome; S.Besser Index

Über Autor(innen)

CATERINO ALBANO Artakt, London
STEPHAN BESSER Researcher, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam
KIRSTIE BLAIR Researcher, Keble College, Oxford
DAVID BOYD HAYCOCK Researcher, Freelance
MICHAEL R. FINN Researcher, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
PAMELA K. GILBERT Researcher, University of Florida, Gainsville
MIRANDA GILL Researcher, Christ Church, Oxford
MALTE HERWIG Researcher, Merton College, Oxford
EMESE LAFFERTON Researcher, University of Budapest, Hungary
PHILIP RIEDER Researcher, University of Geneva
DAVID E. SHUTTLETON Lecturer, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
AGNIESZKA STECZOWICZ Researcher, Lincoln College, Oxford
JANE WEISS Researcher, State University of New York College, Old Westbury, New York