Idioms of distress : psychosomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature /
"This interdisciplinary study examines the enigmatic category of psychosomatic disorders as articulated in medical writings and represented in literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Six key works are analyzed: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Emile Zola's Therese Raq...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Hiding and Seeking Distress
- 1. Speaking through the Body
- 2. Swings of the Historical Pendulum
- 3. Mysterious Leap
- 4. Literary Patients
- Metaphors of Distress
- 5. "A Strange Sympathy betwixt Soul and Body": Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
- 6. Nerves: At the Interstices of Physiology and Psychology: Emile Zola, Therese Raquin (1867)
- 7. "A Sick Spot on the Body of our Family": Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (1900)
- 8. "Legs Turned to Butter": Arthur Miller, Broken Glass (1994)
- 9. Substance and Shadow: Brian O'Doherty, The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. (1992)
- 10. Shell Shock: Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991)
- 11. Outing the Distress.
