Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture

by Athena Vrettos

Book Overview

Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness--particularly psycho-somatic illness--as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasizing how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. Vrettos uses nineteenth-century fiction, diaries, medical treatises, and health advice manuals to examine how Victorians tried to understand and control their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804725330
• ISBN13: 9780804725330
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"