The Age of Hypochondria: Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultu) (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print) (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)

by G. Grinnell

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.

• ISBN13: 9780230231450
• Publish Date: 14 April 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 202
• Language: English