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Autore |
Logan Peter Melville <1951-> |
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Nerves and narratives : a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose / / Peter Melville Logan ; foreword by Roy Porter [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 248 p. ) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; 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. |
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