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This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major
figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses
to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for
themselves, for example, comments on early performances of
Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane
Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays
in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion,
and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant
pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order
to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each
volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a
selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease
found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was
a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier
centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the
affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor --
and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a
thing as mental illness, or is mental illness just a myth? Is
Alzheimer's really a disease? What is menopause -- a biological or
a social construction?Historically one can see that health,
disease, and illness are concepts that have been ever fluid. Modern
science, sociology, philosophy, even society -- among other factors
-- constantly have these issues under microscopes, learning more,
defining and redefining ever more exactly. Yet often that scrutiny,
instead of leading toward hard answers, only leads to more
questions. Health, Disease, and Illness brings together a sterling
list of classic and contemporary thinkers to examine the history,
state, and future of ever-changing "concepts" in medicine. Divided
into four parts -- Historical Discussions; Characterizing Health,
Disease, and Illness; Clinical Applications of Health and Disease;
and Normalcy, Genetic Disease, and Enhancement: The Future of the
Concepts of Health and Disease -- the reader can see the
evolutionary arc of medical concepts from the Greek physician Galen
of Pergamum (ca. 150 ce) who proposed that "the best doctor is also
a philosopher," to contemporary discussions of the genome and
morality. The editors have recognized a crucial need for a deeper
integration of medicine and philosophy with each other,
particularly in an age of dynamicallychanging medical science --
and what it means, medically, philosophically, to be human.
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical
sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents
contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and
researcher to reaad the material themselves.
Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children
and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The
lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis
Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance
to detail and nuance.
"Children and Sexuality" discusses the historical relationship
between children and sexuality, and the changing views of
child-adult relations in the sexual domain, in a series of case
studies extending from the Greeks to the Great War. Chapters
provide highly original interpretations of these cases that
challenge the received views of children and sexuality, as well as
traditional disciplinary conventions. While the book is firmly
grounded in history and literature, biography and social custom, it
also engages with current debates in literary and cultural history;
as well as the new history and anthropology of childhood
Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children
and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The
lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis
Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance
to detail and nuance.
Between 1970 and 2000 George Rousseau wrote a series of landmark
essays about the role of nervous physiology in literature and
history that altered the landscape of eighteenth-century studies.
The essays changed the direction of some Enlightenment thought and
configured the rise of sensibility in new ways. Since then much
work has been done which engages, challenges, adopts, and expands
on Rousseau's original discussions. This volume collects and
reprints the most important of those essays and surveys the current
critical moment as it touches on the vocabularies Rousseau
pioneered. The introduction surveys nerves from the ancients to the
moderns, and then selects examples in literature where the literary
and moral elements of nervous discourse are especially prominent.
The epilogue engages with the critical reception of the original
essays and provides biographical and critical reflections on the
legacy of the nerves in literary scholarship.
Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these meanings as doctors, yet it is only recently that literary traditions have been recognized as a rich archive for these interpretations. These essays focus on the methodological hurdles encountered in retrieving these interpretations, called "framing" by the authors. Framing and Imagining Disease aims to explain what has been said about these interpretations and to compare their value.
Gout has interested medical writers and cultural commentators from
the time of Ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease
afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius and
creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the
Medici, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant and Robert
Browning. Gout has also been the subject of medical folklore,
viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assure long
life. This book investigates the history of gout and through it
offers a perspective on medical and social history, sex, prejudice
and class and explains why gout was gender specific. The authors
investigate medical thinking about gout through the ages, from
Hippocrates and Galen through Paracelsus and Harvey to Archibald
Garrod in the Victorian era and beyond. They discuss the cultural,
moral, religious and personal qualities associated with gout,
examining social commentary, personal writings, cartoons and visual
arts, and imaginative literature (including novels of Dickens,
Thackeray and Joseph Conrad).
""The Languages of Psyche illuminates principal aspects of
eighteenth-century medicine and literature and shows how evolving
patterns of thought established continuities that helped shape
nineteenth- and twentieth-century conceptions of the mental
anatomy. Specialists in the history of ideas, including the history
of medical psychology, philosophy, political science, and
literature and the arts, should welcome its publication."--Gloria
Sybil Gross, California State University, Northridge
"This is a splendid anthology, which I read with unflagging
interest. . . . The editor has managed an eclecticism that "works.
It produces rich and fascinating variety rather than chaos."--Henry
Abelove, Wesleyan University
"A very impressive set of essays dealing with an important topic
in eighteenth-century thought . . . written by some of the leading
scholars in social history, history of science and medicine, and
literary studies."--John Yolton, Rutgers University
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Hysteria Beyond Freud (Paperback)
Sander L Gilman, Helen King, Roy Porter, G.S. Rousseau, Elaine Showalter
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R1,796
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"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been
used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme
emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil
others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its
power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different
centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of
hysteria? Â These are among the questions pursued in this
absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The
widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and
cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine
the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and
patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from
antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing,
they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we
understand the mind. Â This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1993.
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Hysteria Beyond Freud (Hardcover)
Sander L Gilman, Helen King, Roy Porter, G.S. Rousseau, Elaine Showalter
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R2,976
Discovery Miles 29 760
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been
used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme
emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil
others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its
power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different
centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of
hysteria? Â These are among the questions pursued in this
absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The
widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and
cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine
the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and
patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from
antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing,
they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we
understand the mind. Â This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1993.
Originally published in 1988, this Anglo-American collaborative
volume, which appeared during the 300th anniversary of Alexander
Pope's birth in 1688, brings together contributions from a large
number of the most outstanding scholars in the field of Pope
studies. It is a comprehensive collective survey of the poet's life
and work. The essays centre on his poetry, while his life and
reputation, his translations and relation to the classical world,
and his attitudes to women are also discussed. There is a section
on landscape gardening and the villa at Twickenham, and another on
Pope and posterity. A diversity of approaches is represented, but
with recurrent themes and a general awareness of Pope's place in
the contemporary literary context. A major landmark in Pope
studies, this book provided a well-judged assessment, while
affirming and extending the poet's standing.
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