Book ID: CBB001020728

The Age of Hypochondria: Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness (2010)

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Grinnell, George C. (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xi + 202 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Explores this problem as both a malady and a metaphor among British Romantic writers.


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Review Danto, Elizabeth (2013) Review of "The Age of Hypochondria: Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness". European Legacy (p. 758). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Orsini, Davide
Driggers, Edward Allen, Jr.
Brigo, Francesco
Micheletti, Silvia
Martini, Mariano
Ryan, William John
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Social History of Medicine
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Journal of the History of Sexuality
History of Psychiatry
ELH: English Literary History
Publishers
Licosia
Washington State University
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Claremont Graduate University
The Claremont Graduate University
Concepts
Science and literature
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Health
Medicine and society
People
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Beddoes, Thomas
Jentsch, Ernst Anton
Andrea Verga
Mori, Masahiro
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Spain
Germany
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