Hypochondria and Racial Interiority in Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee

Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts," 1854 IN THE NOVELS THAT HAVE BECOME critical touchstones for understanding cross-racial sympathy in the antebellum era-works such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851) or Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851)-medica...

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Published inThe Arizona quarterly Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 1 - 25
Main Author Murison, Justine S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tucson Johns Hopkins University Press 01.03.2008
Subjects
American literature
Hypochondria
Literary criticism
Medicine
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
Ngai, Sianne
Novels
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Psychology
Race
Slavery
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)
Sympathy
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
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Summary:Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts," 1854 IN THE NOVELS THAT HAVE BECOME critical touchstones for understanding cross-racial sympathy in the antebellum era-works such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851) or Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851)-medical constructions of the mind and its diseases play a profoundly important but still overlooked role.
ISSN:0004-1610
1558-9595
1558-9595
DOI:10.1353/arq.2008.0001