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Idioms of Distress : Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791487594
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Idioms of DistressDDC classification:
  • 616.08
LOC classification:
  • RC49 -- .F87 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Idioms of Distress -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: Hiding and Seeking Distress -- 1. Speaking through the Body -- 2. Swings of the Historical Pendulum -- 3. The Mysterious Leap -- 4. Literary Patients -- PART II: 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, Thérèse Raquin (1867) -- 7. "A Sick Spot on the Body of the Family": Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (1901) -- 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 -- Notes -- PREFACE -- 1. SPEAKING THROUGH THE BODY -- 2. SWINGS OF THE HISTORICAL PENDULUM -- 3. THE MYSTERIOUS LEAP -- 4. LITERARY PATIENTS -- 5. "A STRANGE SYMPATHY BETWIXT SOUL AND BODY" -- 6. NERVES: AT THE INTERSTICES OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY -- 7. "A SICK SPOT ON THE BODY OF THE FAMILY" -- 8. "LEGS TURNED TO BUTTER" -- 9. SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW -- 10. SHELL SHOCK -- 11. OUTING THE DISTRESS -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Traces portrayals of psychosomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Intro -- Idioms of Distress -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: Hiding and Seeking Distress -- 1. Speaking through the Body -- 2. Swings of the Historical Pendulum -- 3. The Mysterious Leap -- 4. Literary Patients -- PART II: 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, Thérèse Raquin (1867) -- 7. "A Sick Spot on the Body of the Family": Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (1901) -- 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 -- Notes -- PREFACE -- 1. SPEAKING THROUGH THE BODY -- 2. SWINGS OF THE HISTORICAL PENDULUM -- 3. THE MYSTERIOUS LEAP -- 4. LITERARY PATIENTS -- 5. "A STRANGE SYMPATHY BETWIXT SOUL AND BODY" -- 6. NERVES: AT THE INTERSTICES OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY -- 7. "A SICK SPOT ON THE BODY OF THE FAMILY" -- 8. "LEGS TURNED TO BUTTER" -- 9. SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW -- 10. SHELL SHOCK -- 11. OUTING THE DISTRESS -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Traces portrayals of psychosomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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