Nerves and narratives
Subtitle: a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose
By: Peter Melville Logan ; foreword by Roy Porter.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Hysteria in literature; Literature and mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century; Mental illness in literature; Mentally ill in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Psychology and literature
Other titles: Nerves & narratives
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.