The age of hypochondria[electronic r...
Grinnell, George C.

 

  • The age of hypochondria[electronic resource] :interpreting Romantic health and illness /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 820.9/3561
    書名/作者: The age of hypochondria : interpreting Romantic health and illness // George C. Grinnell.
    作者: Grinnell, George C.
    出版者: Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
    面頁冊數: xi, 202 p. : : ill.
    標題: English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century
    標題: Hypochondria in literature.
    標題: Diseases in literature.
    標題: Literature and medicine - History - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Romanticism - Great Britain.
    標題: Hypochondriasis - history - Great Britain.
    標題: History, 19th Century - Great Britain.
    標題: Medicine in Literature - Great Britain.
    ISBN: 9780230277373
    ISBN: 0230277373
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
    內容註: Introduction: Interpreting romantic hypochondria -- Occupational hazard: Beddoes and the "great dark threat" of romantic medicine -- Body dysmorphic disorder: the self-anatomy of Coleridge's aesthetics -- Phantom memory: nation and the absent body of idealism in Mary Shelley's Thelast man -- Multiple Personality: De Quincey's Political economies of infirmity -- Performance anxiety: illness and The History of Mary Prince.
    摘要、提要註: What if the experience of hypochondria was not simply one of imagined infirmity? In an age inwhich health was increasingly policied in terms of moral as well as physical well-being, writers atthe turn of the nineteenth century viewed hypochondria as a malady and a metaphor for the difficulty of discerning health in the body. As a troubling laceration in normalizing efforts to determine the body as either ideally healthy or improperly sick, hypochondria mediated a range of social and political concerns and became a figure of interpretation for the ways in which the corporeal body elludesour efforts to know it. The Age of Hypochondria examines several episodes of hypochondria, in worksby Thomas Beddoes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Mary Prince, in order to suggest why fictions of health - and obsessions with disease - may have become so pervasive inthe Romantic era.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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