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-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 |
ISBN | 0585055211 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495963603321 |
Logan Peter Melville <1951-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian fetishism [[electronic resource] ] : intellectuals and primitives / / Peter Melville Logan |
Autore | Logan Peter Melville <1951-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/3552 |
Collana | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century |
Soggetto topico |
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Culture - Philosophy - History - 19th century Criticism - Great Britain - History - 19th century Culture in literature Fetishism in literature Primitivism in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-7914-7728-2
1-4416-0364-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454171503321 |
Logan Peter Melville <1951-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian fetishism [[electronic resource] ] : intellectuals and primitives / / Peter Melville Logan |
Autore | Logan Peter Melville <1951-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/3552 |
Collana | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century |
Soggetto topico |
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Culture - Philosophy - History - 19th century Criticism - Great Britain - History - 19th century Culture in literature Fetishism in literature Primitivism in literature |
ISBN |
0-7914-7728-2
1-4416-0364-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782988203321 |
Logan Peter Melville <1951-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian fetishism : intellectuals and primitives / / Peter Melville Logan |
Autore | Logan Peter Melville <1951-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/3552 |
Collana | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century |
Soggetto topico |
English prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Culture - Philosophy - History - 19th century Criticism - Great Britain - History - 19th century Culture in literature Fetishism in literature Primitivism in literature |
ISBN |
0-7914-7728-2
1-4416-0364-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Primitive Fetishism from Antiquity to 1860 -- Matthew Arnold’s Culture -- George Eliot’s Realism -- Edward Tylor’s Science -- Sexology’s Perversion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811392403321 |
Logan Peter Melville <1951-> | ||
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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