Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 From Hippocrates to Shakespeare and Dickens: epilepsy's entry into ‘the circuit of culture’
- 2 Hystericity and hauntings: the female and the feminised
- 3 Notes from the borderlands: repressing the returned
- 4 The colonies
- 5 Because you're ‘you know. That way’
- Where to next? The ongoing story of epilepsy
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 From Hippocrates to Shakespeare and Dickens: epilepsy's entry into ‘the circuit of culture’
- 2 Hystericity and hauntings: the female and the feminised
- 3 Notes from the borderlands: repressing the returned
- 4 The colonies
- 5 Because you're ‘you know. That way’
- Where to next? The ongoing story of epilepsy
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Representing EpilepsyMyth and Matter, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2010