Idioms of Distress
Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative Literature
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
240 pages
978-0-7914-8759-4 (ISBN)
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Traces portrayals of psychosomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Lilian R. Furst is Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous books include Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature, published by SUNY Press; Just Talk: Narratives of Psychotherapy; and Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power.
Content
Preface
Hiding and Seeking Distress
1. Speaking through the Body
2. Swings of the Historical Pendulum
3. The 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, Thérèse 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Hiding and Seeking Distress
1. Speaking through the Body
2. Swings of the Historical Pendulum
3. The 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, Thérèse 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
