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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"--Provided by publisher
Introduction: Interpreting romantic hypochondria -- Occupational hazard: Beddoes and the "great dark threat" of romantic medicine -- Body dysmorphic disorder: the self-anatomy of Coleridge's aesthetics -- Phantom memory: nation and the absent body of idealism in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Multiple Personality: De Quincey's Political economies of infirmity -- Performance anxiety: illness and The History of Mary Prince