Somatic fictions : imagining illness in Victorian culture, Athena Vrettos

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Somatic fictions : imagining illness in Victorian culture, Athena Vrettos

Title remainder

imagining illness in Victorian culture

Statement of responsibility

Athena Vrettos

Instantiates

• Somatic fictions : imagining illness in Victorian culture

Publication

• Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1995

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-240) and index

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text

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• txt

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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

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l80094005352

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22 cm.

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xii, 250 p.

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9780804725330

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lc94005352

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rdamedia

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• n

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b1927053