The age of hypochondria
Subtitle: interpreting Romantic health and illness
By: George C. Grinnell.
Series: Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780230231450
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Hypochondria in literature; Diseases in literature; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Romanticism -- Great Britain
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Interpreting Romantic Hypochondria; title: Occupation Hazard: Thomas Beddoes and the "great dark threat" of Romantic Medicine; title: Body Dysmorphic Disorder: The Self-Anatomy of Coleridge's Aesthetics; title: Phantom Memory: Nation and the Absent Body of Idealism in Mary Shelley's The Last Man; title: Multiple Personality: De Quincey's Political Economies of Infirmity; title: Performance Anxiety: Illness and The History of Mary Prince; title: Coda; title: Notes; title: Bibliography.