MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01916nam a22003018a 4500
001 2010002686
003 DLC
005 20100212101414.0
008 100123s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010002686
020 $a9780230231450
040 $aDLC$cDLC
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.
263 $a1007
300 $ap. 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 and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: Interpreting Romantic Hypochondria -- Occupation Hazard: Thomas 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 -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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.