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Subject(s)

• English literature—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Illness anxiety disorder in literature [Browse]
• Diseases in literature [Browse]
• Literature and medicine—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• Romanticism—Great Britain [Browse]

Series

Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Machine 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.

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ISBN

• 9780230231450
• 0230231454

LCCN

2010002686

OCLC

428030595

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