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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Colburn, Glen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents; introduction; part i; mme de staël and the sociology of melancholy; english song, english malady; quacks, social climbers, social critics, and gentlemen physicians; "corruptible bodies"; "with the affection of a parent"; part ii; without swapping her skirt for breeches; a portrait of the artist as a dead man; fanny burney, the vapours, and feminine desire; medical women and hysterical doctors; the sex of spleen and the body of sensibility in early romantic lyric; notorious celebrity; contributors; index.

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