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• catalog abstract "Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasizing 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 explores the historical assumptions, patterns of perceptions, and structures of belief that invested sickness and health with cultural meaning. The book treats narrative as a crucial component of cultural history and demonstrates how literary, medical, and cultural narratives charted the categories through which people came to understand themselves and the structures of social interaction. Vrettos challenges those feminist and cultural historians who have maintained that nineteenth-century medical attempts to chart the meaning of bodily structures resulted in essential categories of social and sexual definition. She argues that the power of illness to make one's own body seem alien, or to link disparate groups of people through the process of contagion, suggested to Victorians the potential instability of social and biological identities. The book shows how Victorians attempted to manage diffuse and chaotic social issues by displacing them onto matters of physiology. This displacement resulted in the collapse of perceived boundaries of human embodiment, whether through fears of psychic and somatic permeability, sympathetic identification with another's pain, or conflicting measures of racial and cultural fitness. In the course of her study, the author examines the relationships among health, imperialism, anthropometry, and racial theory in such popular Victorian novels as Dracula and She, and the conceptual linkage of spirituality, hysteria, and nervousness in Victorian literature and medicine.".
• catalog contributor b7659681.
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description "1. Body Language and the Poetics of Illness. Emotional Ventriloquism. Eloquent Deceptions and Somatic Truth. Maternal Nursing and the Dangers of Affect -- 2. From Neurosis to Narrative: The Private Life of the Nerves. Nervous Spirituality. Psychic Spaces: Villette, Daniel Deronda. Visionary Sensibility: Daniel Deronda. Incurable Narratives -- 3. Neuromimesis and the Medical Gaze. Imitation, Contagion, and the Crowd. Sympathy, Gender, and Medical Vision. Suggestible Readers. Affective Hermeneutics: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hypnotic Spectatorship: Trilby. Visual Transgression: Middlemarch. Interpretive Androgyny: Wings of the Dove -- 4. The National Health: Defining and Defending Bodily Boundaries. The Ideology of Exercise. Domestic Fitness: The Egoist. The Anatomy of Empire. Physical Immunity and Racial Destiny: Stoker and Haggard.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-240) and index.".
• catalog description "Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasizing 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 explores the historical assumptions, patterns of perceptions, and structures of belief that invested sickness and health with cultural meaning.".
• catalog description "The book shows how Victorians attempted to manage diffuse and chaotic social issues by displacing them onto matters of physiology. This displacement resulted in the collapse of perceived boundaries of human embodiment, whether through fears of psychic and somatic permeability, sympathetic identification with another's pain, or conflicting measures of racial and cultural fitness. In the course of her study, the author examines the relationships among health, imperialism, anthropometry, and racial theory in such popular Victorian novels as Dracula and She, and the conceptual linkage of spirituality, hysteria, and nervousness in Victorian literature and medicine.".
• catalog description "The book treats narrative as a crucial component of cultural history and demonstrates how literary, medical, and cultural narratives charted the categories through which people came to understand themselves and the structures of social interaction. Vrettos challenges those feminist and cultural historians who have maintained that nineteenth-century medical attempts to chart the meaning of bodily structures resulted in essential categories of social and sexual definition. She argues that the power of illness to make one's own body seem alien, or to link disparate groups of people through the process of contagion, suggested to Victorians the potential instability of social and biological identities.".
• catalog extent "xii, 250 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0804724245 (cl.)".
• catalog identifier "0804725330 (pbk.)".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
• catalog subject "1995 K-317".
• catalog subject "823/.809356 20".
• catalog subject "Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Diseases in literature.".
• catalog subject "Eliot, George, 1819-1880 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Health in literature.".
• catalog subject "History, 19th Century.".
• catalog subject "Imagination in literature.".
• catalog subject "James, Henry, 1843-1916 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Literature and medicine English-speaking countries.".
• catalog subject "Literature and mental illness English-speaking countries.".
• catalog subject "Literature and mental illness History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Literature, Modern.".
• catalog subject "Medical fiction History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Medicine, Psychosomatic, in literature.".
• catalog subject "Medicine, Psychosomatic.".
• catalog subject "Mind and body in literature.".
• catalog subject "PR878.M42 V73 1995".
• catalog subject "Psychosomatic Medicine History.".
• catalog subject "Sick in literature.".
• catalog subject "Somatoform disorders in literature.".
• catalog subject "Somatoform disorders.".
• catalog subject "Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "WM 49 V979s 1995".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Body Language and the Poetics of Illness. Emotional Ventriloquism. Eloquent Deceptions and Somatic Truth. Maternal Nursing and the Dangers of Affect -- 2. From Neurosis to Narrative: The Private Life of the Nerves. Nervous Spirituality. Psychic Spaces: Villette, Daniel Deronda. Visionary Sensibility: Daniel Deronda. Incurable Narratives -- 3. Neuromimesis and the Medical Gaze. Imitation, Contagion, and the Crowd. Sympathy, Gender, and Medical Vision. Suggestible Readers. Affective Hermeneutics: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hypnotic Spectatorship: Trilby. Visual Transgression: Middlemarch. Interpretive Androgyny: Wings of the Dove -- 4. The National Health: Defining and Defending Bodily Boundaries. The Ideology of Exercise. Domestic Fitness: The Egoist. The Anatomy of Empire. Physical Immunity and Racial Destiny: Stoker and Haggard.".
• catalog title "Somatic fictions : imagining illness in Victorian culture / Athena Vrettos.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".