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Corps et âme
ISBN: 2718191376 9782718191379 Year: 1996 Volume: 91 Publisher: Paris: Sedes,

Sinnenwelt und Welteseele: der psychologische Monismus in der Literatur der Jahrhundertwende
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ISBN: 3484181257 3111821307 3110923807 9783484181250 Year: 1993 Volume: 125 Publisher: Tübingen: Niemeyer,


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Diseases of the imagination and imaginary disease in the early modern period
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ISBN: 9782503527963 2503527965 Year: 2011 Volume: 2 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

Inwardness and theater in the English Renaissance
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ISBN: 0226511243 Year: 1995 Publisher: Chicago London University of Chicago Press

Bodies and selves in early modern England : physiology and inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton
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ISBN: 0521669022 0521630738 9780521630733 9780521669023 Year: 1999 Volume: 34 Publisher: New York Cambridge Melbourne Cambridge University Press

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Michael Schoenfeldt's fascinating study explores the close relationship between selves and bodies, psychological inwardness and corporeal processes, as they are represented in early modern English literature. After Galen, the predominant medical paradigm of the period envisaged a self governed by humors, literally embodying inner emotion by locating and explaining human passion within a taxonomy of internal organs and fluids. It thus gave a profoundly material emphasis to behavioural phenomena, giving the poets of the period a vital and compelling vocabulary for describing the ways in which selves inhabit and experience bodies. In contrast to much recent work on the body which has emphasized its exuberant 'leakiness' as a principal of social liberation amid oppressive regimes, Schoenfeldt establishes the emancipatory value that the Renaissance frequently located not in moments of festive release, but in the exercise of regulation, temperance and self-control.


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The politics of anxiety in nineteenth-century American literature
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ISBN: 9781107007918 9780511812071 9781107694149 9781139078818 113907881X 1107007917 0511812078 1139064053 110722182X 1283112841 9786613112842 1139076531 113908335X 113908108X 1139070819 1107694140 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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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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