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Author: Tom Lutz
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780801499012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHysteria, insomnia, hypochondria, asthma, skin rashes, hay fever, premature baldness, inebriety, nervous exhaustion, brain-collapse--all were symptoms of neurasthenia, the bizarre psychophysiological illness that plagued America's intellectual and economic elite around the turn of the century.
Author: Tom Lutz
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaper edition of a 1991 study. The subject is "a cultural complex--a disease called neurasthenia" (from the preface), examined at a specific historical "moment"--1903. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Thomas Michael Lutz
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 844
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Andrew Braun
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Published: 1967
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Justine S. Murison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-21
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1139497634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Author: Tim Armstrong
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1996-12
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780814706589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors from areas including history, literary and cultural studies, and film studies look at the body as a cultural construct configured by politics, gender, racial categories, fears of pollution, and commercial forces that exploit and regulate it, from the 19th century to the present. They examine subjects such as sailor tattoos, maritime cannibalism, birth control, anorexia, boxing, cyberpunk, and plastic surgery. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1994-04-01
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 0814771033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool? These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely and engaging volume. American Cool focuses extensively on the transition decades, from the erosion of Victorianism in the 1920s to the solidification of a cool culture in the 1960s. Beyond describing the characteristics of the new directions and how they altered or amended earlier standards, the book seeks to explain why the change occured. It then assesses some of the outcomes and longer-range consequences of this transformation.
Author: Julian B Carter
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007-06-08
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780822339489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVA study of the racialized construction of heterosexual normality based on the analysis of medical pamphlets, marriage manuals, and sex-instructional literature./div
Author: Susan Harris Smith
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-07-09
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0230605028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.
