Idioms of Distress

Idioms of DistressTraces portrayals of psychosomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This interdisciplinary study examines the enigmatic category of psychosomatic disorders as articulated in medical writings and represented in literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Six key works are analyzed: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, mile Zola's Thrse Raquin, Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, Arthur Miller's

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