Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print: Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness

Grinnell, G.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-04-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230231450

DOI: 10.1057/9780230277373

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 202