Writers with chronic illness
By: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, issue editor
Series: Literature and medicine -- v. 18, no. 1; Literature and medicine -- v. 18, no. 1.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Chronic Disease; Writing
Notes: "Spring 1999".

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Women, writers sufferers: Anne Conway and An Collins / Sarah E. Skwire; title: Voltaire's complaint: illness and eroticism in La Correspondance / Deidre Dawson; title: Ellen Emerson and the tubercular muse / Janet M. Anderson; title: Seized by the muse: Dostoevsky's convulsive poetics in The Idiot / Dennis Patrick Slattery; title: Conrad Aiken and the seduction of suicide / Catharine F. Seigel; title: A thirst for reverie: alcohol, despair, and dream space in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry / Renee R. Curry; title: "Blood don't lie": the diseased family in Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge / Susanna Gilbert; title: Writing, time, and AIDS in the works of Herve Guibert / Clara Orban.