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This book focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasising how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. The author uses nineteenth-century fiction, diaries, medical treatises, and health advice manuals to examine how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition. Tracing the concept of illness in the fiction of a variety of authors - Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Meredith, Bram Stoker, and H. Rider Haggard - Vrettos shows how Victorians attempted to manage diffuse and chaotic social issues by displacing them on to matters of physiology.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Somatic Fictions
• Subtitle: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture
• Author: Athena Vrettos
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780804725330
• ISBN: 0804725330
• ID: 04716371
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 1995

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