The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

ISBN: 9781107694149 出版年：2011 页码：229 Justine S Murison Cambridge University Press

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.