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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Shakespeare's Mad Men : A Crisis of Authority / / Richard van Oort |
Autore | Van Oort Richard |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
Disciplina | 822.33 |
Collana | Square One |
Soggetto topico |
Characters and characteristics in literature
English drama - 17th century - History and criticism Ethics in literature Measure for measure (Shakespeare, William) Mentally ill in literature |
ISBN | 1-5036-3358-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The King’s Last Potlatch -- 2 The Judge, the Duke, His Wife, and Her Lover -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795878003321 |
Van Oort Richard | ||
Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Shakespeare's Mad Men : A Crisis of Authority / / Richard van Oort |
Autore | Van Oort Richard |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
Disciplina | 822.33 |
Collana | Square One |
Soggetto topico |
Characters and characteristics in literature
English drama - 17th century - History and criticism Ethics in literature Measure for measure (Shakespeare, William) Mentally ill in literature |
ISBN | 1-5036-3358-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The King’s Last Potlatch -- 2 The Judge, the Duke, His Wife, and Her Lover -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810297303321 |
Van Oort Richard | ||
Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spaces of madness : insane asylums in Argentine narrative / / Eunice Rojas |
Autore | Rojas Eunice |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina | 860.9/982 |
Soggetto topico |
Argentine literature - History and criticism
Mentally ill in literature Asylums - Argentina |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4985-0791-3
0-7391-9087-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Early asylums: Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt -- The asylum in the works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares -- The schizophrenic machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum -- Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the asylum -- Juan José Saer's Committed detective -- The Asylum as Juan José Saer's Argentine founding myth -- The poet as patient: the literary life of Jacobo Fijman. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463401703321 |
Rojas Eunice | ||
Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spaces of madness : insane asylums in Argentine narrative / / Eunice Rojas |
Autore | Rojas Eunice |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina | 860.9/982 |
Soggetto topico |
Argentine literature - History and criticism
Mentally ill in literature Asylums - Argentina |
ISBN |
1-4985-0791-3
0-7391-9087-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Early asylums: Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt -- The asylum in the works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares -- The schizophrenic machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum -- Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the asylum -- Juan José Saer's Committed detective -- The Asylum as Juan José Saer's Argentine founding myth -- The poet as patient: the literary life of Jacobo Fijman. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788178503321 |
Rojas Eunice | ||
Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spaces of madness : insane asylums in Argentine narrative / / Eunice Rojas |
Autore | Rojas Eunice |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina | 860.9/982 |
Soggetto topico |
Argentine literature - History and criticism
Mentally ill in literature Asylums - Argentina |
ISBN |
1-4985-0791-3
0-7391-9087-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Early asylums: Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt -- The asylum in the works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares -- The schizophrenic machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum -- Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the asylum -- Juan José Saer's Committed detective -- The Asylum as Juan José Saer's Argentine founding myth -- The poet as patient: the literary life of Jacobo Fijman. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821972903321 |
Rojas Eunice | ||
Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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