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The politics of anxiety in nineteenth-century American literature /
"For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous sy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
162. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A bond-slave to the mind: sympathy and hypochondria in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee
- Frogs, dogs, and mobs: reflex and democracy in Edgar Allan Poe's satires
- Invasions of privacy: clairvoyance and utopian failure in antebellum romance
- 'All that is enthusiastic': revival and reform in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred
- Cui bono?: spiritualism and empiricism from the Civil War to American nervousness
- Epilogue: the confidences of anxiety.