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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McCann, Daniel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), McKechnie-Mason, Claire (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Medicine.; Literary Theory.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

This book is about an emotion constantly present in human culture and history: fear. It is also a book about literature and medicine, two areas of human endeavour that engage with fear most acutely. The essays in this volume explore fear in various literary and medical manifestations, in the Western...