Nerves and narratives : a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose / Peter Melville Logan ; foreword by Roy Porter.
Pubblicazione:
Berkeley : University of California press, 1997.
Descrizione fisica:
XVI, 248 p. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Foreword / by Roy Porter. Acknoledgments. Abbreviations. Introduction. Pt. 1. The body with the story to tell: 1. The narrative of nervous bodies in 1800: Thomas Trotter's A view of the Nervous temperament. Pt. 2. The body talks: 2. The nervous narrator's paradox: William Godwin and Caleb Williams 3. Narrative and self-violence: framing Mary Hay's Memoirs of Emma Courtney 4. Suspiria de machina: De Quincey's body and the Confessions of an English opium-eater 5. Harrington's last shudder: Maria Edgeworth and the popular fear of the nervous body. Pt. 3. Victorian bodies: 6. The body in need of nerves: working-class insensibility and Victorian sanitation 7. The story of the story of the body: conceiving the body in Middlemarch. Notes. Bibliography. Index
