Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions

ISBN-13: 9781137559470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 261 str.

Daniel McCann; Claire McKechnie-Mason

Recenzje

"This is an inquiry into fear as both a psychological and physical condition to be dealt with in medicine ... . This is a set of contributions that will be of interest to a wide audience, from writers and artists to practitioners ... . This study is different, starting with its double approach: medicine and the arts." (Alain Touwaide, Doody's Book Reviews, August, 2018)

Spis treści

1. Introduction: A Dreadful Start - Daniel McCann and Claire McKechnie-Mason.- 2. “Frightened and Rather Feverish”: The Fear of Pain in Childbirth - Joanna Bourke.- 3. Dreadful: Aesthetic Fear in Victorian Reading - Pamela K. Gilbert.- 4. Damned Above Ground: Dreadful Despair in Elizabethan and Stuart Literature - Elizabeth Hunter.- 5. ‘Fear and sorrow without a just cause’: the place of fear in The Anatomy of Melancholy - Mary Ann Lund.- 6. Dreadful Health: Fear and ‘Sowle-hele’ in The Prickynge of Love - Daniel McCann.- 7. The Age of Noise and the Mass Dread of Quietude in Interwar Britain 1919-1939 - Neil Pemberton.- 8. Fears, Phobias and the Victorian Psyche - Sally Shuttleworth.- 9.  “The Fearful Body in Contemporary Medical Television Drama and Medical Case Reports.” - Martin Willis.- 10. Fresh Terror, New Horror: Fear and the Unfamiliar in the Old English Exodus - Andy Orchard.

O autorze

Daniel B. McCann is the Simon and June Li Fellow in Old and Middle English at Oxford University’s Lincoln College.

Claire McKechnie-Mason is a management officer at NHS Cardiff.