Diseases of the imagination and imaginary disease in the early modern period / edited by Yasmin Haskell.

• When is a disease not a disease? : seeming and suffering in early modern Europe / Yasmin Haskell -- Coping with inner and outer demons : Marsilio Ficino's theory of the imagination / Guido Giglioni -- Melancholy, imagination, and dreaming in Renaissance learning / Angus Gowland -- Witches, the possessed, and the diseases of the imagination / Donald Beecher -- The melancholic nun in late Renaissance Italy / Sharon T. Strocchia -- Afflicted children : supernatural illness, fear, and anxiety in early modern England / Judith Bonzol -- Beyond allegory : the meanings of madness in early modern Spain / Dale Shuger -- Tasso's melancholy and its treatment : a patient's uneasy relationship with medicine and physicians / Monica Calbritto -- Masquerades with the dead : the laughing Democritus in an Observatorio on melancholy by Pieter van Foreest / Thomas Rütten -- 'Lightning strikes, wherever ire dwells with power' : Johan Weir on anger as an illness / Hans de Waardt -- The anatomy of hypochondria : Malachias Geiger's Microcosmus hypochondriacus (Munich, 1652) / Yasmin Haskell -- Lycanthropy in early modern England : the case of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi / Brett D. Hirsch -- Vampires as creatures of the imagination : theories of body, soul, and imagination in early modern vampire tracts (1659-1755) / Koen Vermeir -- '[W]hat fatigues we fine ladies are fated to endure' : sociosomatic hysteria as a female 'English malady' / Heather Meek -- Envoi : the afterlife of Maladies imaginaires / George S. Rousseau.

Ämnesord

Psykiska sjukdomar i litteraturen  (sao)

Imagination.  (LCSH)

Mind and body in literature.  (LCSH)

Mental illness in literature.  (LCSH)

Mind and body  -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Mind and body  -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Mental health  -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Mental health  -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Mental illness  -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Mental illness  -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Factitious Disorders  -- history -- Europe. (MeSH)

History, 16th Century  -- Europe. (MeSH)

History, 17th Century  -- Europe. (MeSH)

Imagination  -- Europe. (MeSH)

Medicine in Literature  -- Europe. (MeSH)

Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical  -- Europe. (MeSH)

Psykiska sjukdomar  -- historia (sao)

Fantasi  -- historia (sao)

Kropp och själ  -- historia (sao)

Mental illness in literature  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Klassifikation

BF161 (LCC)

2012 F-334 (NLM)

WM 11 GA1 (NLM)

616.85200940903 (DDC)

Vlaa (kssb/8 (machine generated))