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  1. The politics of anxiety in nineteenth century American literature
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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  2. The politics of anxiety in nineteenth-century American literature
    Published: 2011
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9781107007918; 1107007917
    RVK Categories: HT 1520
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 162
    Subjects: Englisch; Literatur; Nervensystem; Angst <Motiv>; Selbst <Motiv>; Religion <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Bird, Robert Montgomery (1806-1854); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
    Scope: IX, 215 S., 23x15x2 cm
  3. The politics of anxiety in nineteenth-century American literature
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  4. <<The>> politics of anxiety in nineteenth century American literature
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  5. The politics of anxiety in nineteenth-century American literature
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K

    "For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body... more

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    "For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1283112841; 9781107007918; 9781139076531; 9781283112840
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 162
    Subjects: Mind and body in literature; Neurosciences; Self in literature; Physiology in literature; Nervous system; Anxiety in literature; American literature; Literature and science
    Scope: Online-Ressource (ix, 215 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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    Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. A bond-slave to the mind: sympathy and hypochondria in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee; 2. Frogs, dogs, and mobs: reflex and democracy in Edgar Allan Poe's satires; 3. Invasions of privacy: clairvoyance and Utopian failure in Antebellum romance; 4. 'All that is enthusiastic': revival and reform in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred; 5. Cui bono?: Spiritualism and empiricism from the Civil War to American nervousness; Epilogue: the confidences of anxiety.

  6. <<The>> politics of anxiety in nineteenth-century American literature
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781107007918
    RVK Categories: HT 1520
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 162
    Subjects: American literature; Literature and science; Nervous system; Anxiety in literature; Mind and body in literature; Neurosciences; Self in literature; Physiology in literature
    Scope: IX, 215 S., 23 cm