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

• Autore: Logan Peter Melville <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 248 p. )
• Disciplina: 828/.80809353
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Nerves and narratives
• ISBN: 0585055211
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495963603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II