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The Age of Hypochondria

Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness
By:G. Grinnell
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230231450
eText ISBN:9780230277373
Edition:0
Copyright:2010
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.