02957nam 2200613Ia 450 991046486330332120211129185430.01-282-41405-497866124140531-4438-1485-7(CKB)3390000000008921(EBL)1133134(OCoLC)830168046(SSID)ssj0000435974(PQKBManifestationID)11252925(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000435974(PQKBWorkID)10423269(PQKB)10426021(MiAaPQ)EBC1133134(Au-PeEL)EBL1133134(CaPaEBR)ebr10677075(CaONFJC)MIL241405(EXLCZ)99339000000000892120080926d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnglish malady[electronic resource] enabling and disabling fictions /edited by Glen ColburnNewcastle Cambridge Scholars Pub.20081 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84718-564-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; INDEXThe 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 ...Mental illness in literatureIllness anxiety disorder in literatureEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyEuropeHistory18th centuryElectronic books.Mental illness in literature.Illness anxiety disorder in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryColburn Glen865412MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464863303321English malady1931509UNINA