02875oam 2200589 a 450 991049596360332120180223224132.00585055211(CKB)110989862155114(MH)006937854-1(SSID)ssj0000209320(PQKBManifestationID)12027683(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209320(PQKBWorkID)10265594(PQKB)10183315(EXLCZ)9911098986215511419960916d1997 ub 0engtxtccrNerves and narratives a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose /Peter Melville Logan ; foreword by Roy Porter[electronic resource]Berkeley University of California Pressc19971 online resource (xvii, 248 p. )Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.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.Human body in literatureHysteria in literatureLiterature and mental illnessGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryMental illness in literatureMentally ill in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)Psychology and literatureHuman body in literature.Hysteria in literature.Literature and mental illnessHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryMental illness in literature.Mentally ill in literature.Narration (Rhetoric)Psychology and literature.828/.80809353Logan Peter Melville1951-1186959DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910495963603321Nerves and narratives2903265UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress