Hardy the physician
Subtitle: medical aspects of the Wessex tradition
By: Tony Fincham.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Knowledge -- Medicine; Literature and medicine; Physicians in literature; Diseases in literature; Medicine in literature; Wessex (England) -- In literature
Description: Was Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this explain why many of his characters suffered from depression, took their own lives or developed homicidal tendencies? This book by a rural GP explores these and many other medical issues in Hardy's life and works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Obsextrics; title: Hardyan illness; title: Endgames; title: General practice; title: Psychosomatic illness & death; title: The Fitzpierston syndrome; title: The mind diseased.