The Age of Hypochondria: Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness

Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of interpretation that mediates a broad spectrum of pressing cultural questions.

Author: G. Grinnell
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/14/2010
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230231450

About the Author
GEORGE C. GRINNELL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada, where he teaches Critical Theory and Romanticism. He has published articles and book chapters on Romantic-era medicalized discourse as well as biometrics and questions of terror in the period.