1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003707680403321

Autore

Martin, Stephen <1948- >

Titolo

Advanced industrial economics / Stephen Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 1996

ISBN

063117852x

Descrizione fisica

660 p. ; 23 cm

Locazione

DECTS

Collocazione

L0.41

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009526860403321

Autore

Craveri, Benedetta

Titolo

Amanti e regine : il potere delle donne / Benedetta Craveri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Adelphi, 2010

ISBN

978-88-459-2302-9

Edizione

[3. ed]

Descrizione fisica

432 p. : [8] carte di tav. : ill. ; 20 cm

Collana

Gli Adelphi ; 332

Disciplina

920.72

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

Collez. 2152 (332)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788991803321

Titolo

English malady [[electronic resource] ] : enabling and disabling fictions / / edited by Glen Colburn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-41405-4

9786612414053

1-4438-1485-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ColburnGlen

Disciplina

820.93561

Soggetti

Mental illness in literature

Illness anxiety disorder in literature

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - Europe - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 ...