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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495963603321

Autore

Logan Peter Melville <1951->

Titolo

Nerves and narratives : a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose / / Peter Melville Logan ; foreword by Roy Porter [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997

ISBN

0585055211

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 248 p. )

Disciplina

828/.80809353

Soggetti

Human body in literature

Hysteria in literature

Literature and mental illness - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Mental illness in literature

Mentally ill in literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

Psychology and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. The body with the story to tell: The narrative of nervous bodies in 1800: Thomas Trotter's A view of the nervous temperament -- ; 2. The body talks: The nervous narrator's paradox: William Godwin and Caleb Williams -- Narrative and self-violence: framing Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- Suspiria de machina: De Quincey's body and The confessions of an English opium-eater -- Harrington's last shudder: Maria Edgeworth and the popular fear of the nervous body -- ; 3. Victorian bodies: The body in need of nerves: working-class insensibility and Victorian sanitation -- The story of the story of the body: conceiving the body in Middlemarch.