The Age of Hypochondria

1. Introduction Interpreting Romantic Hypochondria
George C. Grinnell

2. Occupational Hazard: Beddoes and the ‘Great Dark Threat’ of Romantic Medicine
George C. Grinnell

3. Body Dysmorphic Disorder: The Self-Anatomy of Coleridge’s Aesthetics
George C. Grinnell

4. Phantom Memory: Nation and the Absent Body of Idealism in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
George C. Grinnell

5. Multiple Personality: De Quincey’s Political Economies of Infirmity
George C. Grinnell

6. Performance Anxiety: Illness and The History of Mary Prince
George C. Grinnell

7. Coda
George C. Grinnell

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, History of Science, History of Medicine, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature