LEADER 03018nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910788991803321 005 20230721033615.0 010 $a1-282-41405-4 010 $a9786612414053 010 $a1-4438-1485-7 035 $a(CKB)3390000000008921 035 $a(EBL)1133134 035 $a(OCoLC)830168046 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000435974 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11252925 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000435974 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10423269 035 $a(PQKB)10426021 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1133134 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1133134 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10677075 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL241405 035 $a(OCoLC)237882098 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB144015 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000008921 100 $a20080926d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEnglish malady$b[electronic resource] $eenabling and disabling fictions /$fedited by Glen Colburn 210 $aNewcastle $cCambridge Scholars Pub.$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-84718-564-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; MME DE STAE?L 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 330 $aThe 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 ... 606 $aMental illness in literature 606 $aIllness anxiety disorder in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zEurope$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aMental illness in literature. 615 0$aIllness anxiety disorder in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a820.93561 701 $aColburn$b Glen$01564384 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788991803321 996 $aEnglish malady$93833381 997 $aUNINA