The Age of Hypochondria
Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness
Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print book series (PERCP)
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Introduction
Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of interpretation that mediates a broad spectrum of pressing cultural questions.
Keywords
anatomy Coleridge health Percy Bysshe Shelley Romanticism Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277373
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
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- Print ISBN 978-1-349-31194-1
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-27737-3
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