English malady : enabling and disabling fictions /: enabling and disabling fictions. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Glen Colburn.
• Other Names: Colburn, Glen
• Contents: Table of contents; introduction; part i; mme de staël and the sociology of melancholy; english song, english malady; quacks, social climbers, social critics, and gentlemen physicians; "corruptible bodies"; "with the affection of a parent"; part ii; without swapping her skirt for breeches; a portrait of the artist as a dead man; fanny burney, the vapours, and feminine desire; medical women and hysterical doctors; the sex of spleen and the body of sensibility in early romantic lyric; notorious celebrity; contributors; index.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 299 pages)
• Subjects: 820.93561; History of ideas; Mental illness in literature; Hypochondria in literature; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; English literature; Hypochondria in literature; Literature and society; Mental illness in literature; Europe; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1847185649; 9781847185648; 9781443814850; 1443814857
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.