The Resource Somatic fictions : imagining illness in Victorian culture, Athena Vrettos
Somatic fictions : imagining illness in Victorian culture, Athena Vrettos
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- Summary
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- Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasizing how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. The author uses nineteenth-century fiction, diaries, medical treatises, and health advice manuals to examine how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition. Tracing the concept of illness in the fiction of a variety of authors - Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Meredith, Bram Stoker, and H. Rider Haggard - Vrettos explores the historical assumptions, patterns of perceptions, and structures of belief that invested sickness and health with cultural meaning
- "The book shows how Victorians attempted to manage diffuse and chaotic social issues by displacing them onto matters of physiology. This displacement resulted in the collapse of perceived boundaries of human embodiment, whether through fears of psychic and somatic permeability, sympathetic identification with another's pain, or conflicting measures of racial and cultural fitness. In the course of her study, the author examines the relationships among health, imperialism, anthropometry, and racial theory in such popular Victorian novels as Dracula and She, and the conceptual linkage of spirituality, hysteria, and nervousness in Victorian literature and medicine."--Back cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 250 p.
- Contents
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- 1. Body Language and the Poetics of Illness. Emotional Ventriloquism. Eloquent Deceptions and Somatic Truth. Maternal Nursing and the Dangers of Affect
- 2. From Neurosis to Narrative: The Private Life of the Nerves. Nervous Spirituality. Psychic Spaces: Villette, Daniel Deronda. Visionary Sensibility: Daniel Deronda. Incurable Narratives
- 3. Neuromimesis and the Medical Gaze. Imitation, Contagion, and the Crowd. Sympathy, Gender, and Medical Vision. Suggestible Readers. Affective Hermeneutics: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hypnotic Spectatorship: Trilby. Visual Transgression: Middlemarch. Interpretive Androgyny: Wings of the Dove
- 4. The National Health: Defining and Defending Bodily Boundaries. The Ideology of Exercise. Domestic Fitness: The Egoist. The Anatomy of Empire. Physical Immunity and Racial Destiny: Stoker and Haggard
- Isbn
- 9780804725330
- Label
- Somatic fictions : imagining illness in Victorian culture
- Title
- Somatic fictions
- Title remainder
- imagining illness in Victorian culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Athena Vrettos
- Subject
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- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Health in literature
- Imagination in literature
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Literature and medicine -- English-speaking countries
- Literature and mental illness -- English-speaking countries
- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Medicine, Psychosomatic, in literature
- Mind and body in literature
- Sick in literature
- Somatoform disorders in literature
- Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Medical fiction -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Diseases in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasizing how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. The author uses nineteenth-century fiction, diaries, medical treatises, and health advice manuals to examine how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition. Tracing the concept of illness in the fiction of a variety of authors - Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Meredith, Bram Stoker, and H. Rider Haggard - Vrettos explores the historical assumptions, patterns of perceptions, and structures of belief that invested sickness and health with cultural meaning
- "The book shows how Victorians attempted to manage diffuse and chaotic social issues by displacing them onto matters of physiology. This displacement resulted in the collapse of perceived boundaries of human embodiment, whether through fears of psychic and somatic permeability, sympathetic identification with another's pain, or conflicting measures of racial and cultural fitness. In the course of her study, the author examines the relationships among health, imperialism, anthropometry, and racial theory in such popular Victorian novels as Dracula and She, and the conceptual linkage of spirituality, hysteria, and nervousness in Victorian literature and medicine."--Back cover
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vrettos, Athena
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Medicine, Psychosomatic, in literature
- American fiction
- Literature and mental illness
- Literature and medicine
- Medical fiction
- Somatoform disorders in literature
- Mind and body in literature
- Imagination in literature
- Diseases in literature
- Health in literature
- Sick in literature
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Brontë, Charlotte
- Eliot, George
- James, Henry
- Stoker, Bram
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Label
- Somatic fictions : imagining illness in Victorian culture, Athena Vrettos
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-240) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- Contents
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- 1. Body Language and the Poetics of Illness. Emotional Ventriloquism. Eloquent Deceptions and Somatic Truth. Maternal Nursing and the Dangers of Affect
- 2. From Neurosis to Narrative: The Private Life of the Nerves. Nervous Spirituality. Psychic Spaces: Villette, Daniel Deronda. Visionary Sensibility: Daniel Deronda. Incurable Narratives
- 3. Neuromimesis and the Medical Gaze. Imitation, Contagion, and the Crowd. Sympathy, Gender, and Medical Vision. Suggestible Readers. Affective Hermeneutics: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hypnotic Spectatorship: Trilby. Visual Transgression: Middlemarch. Interpretive Androgyny: Wings of the Dove
- 4. The National Health: Defining and Defending Bodily Boundaries. The Ideology of Exercise. Domestic Fitness: The Egoist. The Anatomy of Empire. Physical Immunity and Racial Destiny: Stoker and Haggard
- Control code
- l80094005352
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 250 p.
- Isbn
- 9780804725330
- Lccn
- lc94005352
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Label
- Somatic fictions : imagining illness in Victorian culture, Athena Vrettos
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-240) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 1. Body Language and the Poetics of Illness. Emotional Ventriloquism. Eloquent Deceptions and Somatic Truth. Maternal Nursing and the Dangers of Affect
- 2. From Neurosis to Narrative: The Private Life of the Nerves. Nervous Spirituality. Psychic Spaces: Villette, Daniel Deronda. Visionary Sensibility: Daniel Deronda. Incurable Narratives
- 3. Neuromimesis and the Medical Gaze. Imitation, Contagion, and the Crowd. Sympathy, Gender, and Medical Vision. Suggestible Readers. Affective Hermeneutics: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hypnotic Spectatorship: Trilby. Visual Transgression: Middlemarch. Interpretive Androgyny: Wings of the Dove
- 4. The National Health: Defining and Defending Bodily Boundaries. The Ideology of Exercise. Domestic Fitness: The Egoist. The Anatomy of Empire. Physical Immunity and Racial Destiny: Stoker and Haggard
- Control code
- l80094005352
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 250 p.
- Isbn
- 9780804725330
- Lccn
- lc94005352
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Health in literature
- Imagination in literature
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Literature and medicine -- English-speaking countries
- Literature and mental illness -- English-speaking countries
- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Medicine, Psychosomatic, in literature
- Mind and body in literature
- Sick in literature
- Somatoform disorders in literature
- Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Medical fiction -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Diseases in literature
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