Nerves and narratives : a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose / Peter M...
Nerves and narratives : a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose / Peter M...
Nerves and narratives : a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose / Peter Melville Logan ; foreword by Roy Porter.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
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N828.8080935/4
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English
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xvii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Roy Porter -- 1. The Narrative of Nervous Bodies in 1800: Thomas Trotter's A View of the Nervous Temperament -- 2. The Nervous Narrator's Paradox: William Godwin and Caleb Williams -- 3. Narrative and Self-Violence: Framing Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney -- 4. Suspiria de Machina: D...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
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California
Date Published
c1997.
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Nerves and narratives : a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose / Peter Melville Logan ; foreword by Roy Porter.
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Nerves & narratives.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
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c1997.
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N828.8080935/4
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74VvP8PEPVvO
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0520204735 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520204737 (cloth : alk. paper)
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828.80809353
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991005668699702626
