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Athena Vrettos
Book Description
This book focuses on the centrality of illness-particularly psychosomatic illness-as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how illness shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public, and how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition.
ISBN-10
0804724245
ISBN-13
9780804724241
Language
English
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Publication Date
01-Aug-95
Number of Pages
264
About the Author
Athena Vrettos is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.