Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A bond-slave to the mind: sympathy and hypochondria in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee
- 2 Frogs, dogs, and mobs: reflex and democracy in Edgar Allan Poe's satires
- 3 Invasions of privacy: clairvoyance and utopian failure in antebellum romance
- 4 “All that is enthusiastic”: revival and reform in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred
- 5 Cui bono?: spiritualism and empiricism from the Civil War to American Nervousness
- Epilogue: the confidences of anxiety
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A bond-slave to the mind: sympathy and hypochondria in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee
- 2 Frogs, dogs, and mobs: reflex and democracy in Edgar Allan Poe's satires
- 3 Invasions of privacy: clairvoyance and utopian failure in antebellum romance
- 4 “All that is enthusiastic”: revival and reform in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred
- 5 Cui bono?: spiritualism and empiricism from the Civil War to American Nervousness
- Epilogue: the confidences of anxiety
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011