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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.