English malady : enabling and disabling fictions /

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The eleven essays collected in The English Malady: Enabling and Disabling Fictions adopt perspectives from a variety of disciplines-history, sociology, music, theater, and literary studies-in order to examine manifestations of and writing about hysteria in Europe during the long eighteenth century....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Colburn, Glen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
Temas:
1700-1799
Mental illness in literature.
Illness anxiety disorder in literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Europe > History > 18th century.
Maladies mentales dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
History of ideas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
English literature.
Literature and society.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The eleven essays collected in The English Malady: Enabling and Disabling Fictions adopt perspectives from a variety of disciplines-history, sociology, music, theater, and literary studies-in order to examine manifestations of and writing about hysteria in Europe during the long eighteenth century. The collection demonstrates not only that hysteria was an important cultural metaphor for the Enlightenment-a fact sometimes obscured by scholarly emphasis on the study of hysteria as a nineteenth ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 299 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1847185649
9781847185648
9781443814850
1443814857

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