MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2010002686
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008 100123s2010 enka b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPR468.D57$bG75 2010
082 00 $a820.9/3561$222
100 1 $aGrinnell, George C.
245 14 $aThe age of hypochondria :$binterpreting Romantic health and illness /$cGeorge C. Grinnell.
260 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2010.
300 $axi, 202 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 0 $aPalgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
520 $a"Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of interpretation that mediates a broad spectrum of pressing cultural questions"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Interpreting romantic hypochondria -- Occupational hazard: Beddoes and the "great dark threat" of romantic medicine -- Body dysmorphic disorder: the self-anatomy of Coleridge's aesthetics -- Phantom memory: nation and the absent body of idealism in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Multiple Personality: De Quincey's Political economies of infirmity -- Performance anxiety: illness and The History of Mary Prince.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHypochondria in literature.
650 0 $aDiseases in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and medicine$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain.