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Title English malady : enabling and disabling fictions / edited by Glen Colburn.

Publication Info. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 299 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Table of contents; introduction; part i; mme de staƫl 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.
Summary The 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 ...
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Subject Mental illness in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Hypochondria in literature.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Literature and society -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Literature and society.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 1700 - 1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Colburn, Glen.
Other Form: Print version: English malady. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008 9781847185648 (DLC) 2008425528 (OCoLC)237882098
ISBN 1847185649
9781847185648
9781443814850 (electronic book)
1443814857 (electronic book)