Febris erotica : lovesickness in the Russian literary imagination /
Sobol, Valeria.
Seattle : University of Washington Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The anatomy of feeling and the mind-body problem in Russian sentimentalism -- Diagnosing love : tradition -- "Febris erotica" in Herzen's Who is to blame? -- An ordinary story : Goncharov's romantic patients -- The "question of the soul" in the age of positivism -- What is to be done about a lovesick woman? : Chernyshevsky's treatment -- From lovesickness to shamesickness : Tolstoy's solution.
Russian literature
Lovesickness in literature.
Love in literature.