Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture by Athena Vrettos

Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture

Athena Vrettos

264 pages 1995

2 editions

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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, sel...

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