Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern Dreadful Passions /
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| Summary: | XI, 261 p. text |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55948-7 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: A Dreadful Start - Daniel McCann and Claire McKechnie-Mason
- 2. “Frightened and Rather Feverish”: The Fear of Pain in Childbirth - Joanna Bourke
- 3. Dreadful: Aesthetic Fear in Victorian Reading - Pamela K. Gilbert
- 4. Damned Above Ground: Dreadful Despair in Elizabethan and Stuart Literature - Elizabeth Hunter
- 5. ‘Fear and sorrow without a just cause’: the place of fear in The Anatomy of Melancholy - Mary Ann Lund
- 6. Dreadful Health: Fear and ‘Sowle-hele’ in The Prickynge of Love - Daniel McCann
- 7. The Age of Noise and the Mass Dread of Quietude in Interwar Britain 1919-1939 - Neil Pemberton
- 8. Fears, Phobias and the Victorian Psyche - Sally Shuttleworth
- 9. “The Fearful Body in Contemporary Medical Television Drama and Medical Case Reports.” - Martin Willis
- 10. Fresh Terror, New Horror: Fear and the Unfamiliar in the Old English Exodus - Andy Orchard.